When I recorded my friend's band for a crappy demo they could send around (crappy because of my skills, not theirs) all I charged them was food.
That was one Big Mac meal with an orange soda.
It's pretty simple. You want to go mic to pre to your aardvark.
You can do it all at once with up to 8 (I think on the aardvark?) tracks at a time, or you can just initially record drums, then overdub everything else.
It is pretty much a grab a pre you need and plug in type of thing, that's...
Does the guitar sound amazing when you play it? That might be a problem.
If you can't get that sound to tape then it looks like you have a microphone placement problem.
ADC is analog to digital converter. That's what soundcards do.
The other questions are all up to you. Depending on the tracks you're recording (for you a stereo mix for acoustic guitar) you may want a mixer and you may not.
For you I'd say get a dual preamp so you can record your guitar in...
A mixer is a giant routing board. Let's you add mulitple things, 'mix' them together and send them out a main buss. It can also group multiple tracks and such together. Each mixer (usually) has preamps. A preamp amplifies a microphone up to line level so it can be used. Where you plug your...
What you'll need:
microphones
preamps (amplify the mics so you can use them)
ADC (analog to digital converters, to get what you're recording onto your computer)
mulitrack mixing program (sonar, protools, n-tracks, whatever)
monitors (reference speakers you'll use to mix your tracks so they...
Who's told you that it's good to do? From my understanding it's a big no no, because while it amplifies the highest peak to whatever, it also amplifies the noise by the same amount.