On the old 1960s Star Trek series, Scotty the Chief Engineer used to say, "Ya cannot beat the laws of physics!"
SoundPROOFing takes mass and lots of it. You cannot 'beat' sound waves with cardboard or blankets or foam.
There is a reason big studios spend millions to construct acoustically...
specs say the amp has a usb interface; hopefully youre using that.
"all the sound comes out of my computer speakers and its real muzzled and fuzzy and just sounds like crap."
ok, the basic soundcard for computer has 40cents worth of chips for beeps, boops and gaming. Computer speakers are...
1. Musescore.org - it's free and works on windows or mac.
2. No, not reliably. Get a karaoke version of the song (usually done by people recreating the song)
Short answer, unless you want to drop BIG money, not so much.
The converters and circuitry in low-medium priced interfaces is pretty much the same quality.
You want to find something with reliable asio drivers compatible with your os more than anything else.
Well Amazon sells Bob Katz' Science of Mastering book (it's great) that tells you most everything.
If you can read a 340page book equal to a college course in 10 minutes... go for it....
Reaper
Allows you to use the computer keyboard as a midi keyboard, then you could use any midi vsti for drums with it.
Demo is fully functional so you can try it out and see if it works for you.
#1: Get rid of the Creative gamer card and get a real asio soundcard/interface.
(asio4all is a nice hack but it only emulates low-latency asio and you're fighting cheap chips on the gamer card.)
a usb mic has an audio interface chip built into it.
to keep the cost down (and due to them being mainly used by podcasters) you lose a lot of functionality.
low-latency asio drivers specify ONE driver instance so you just cant gang devices up easily.
long story short, when you start wanting to...
Keep the presonus. You dont want to use those little sticks (leave those to podcasters).
You'll have a lot more flexibility with a multiple input interface.
Try out Reaper.
The 'demo' is fully functional so you can see if it fits your needs and they trust you will get a license and be a part of the community...
usb plugs must plug directly into the computer, not into audio interfaces.
That said, you'd be better off selling the usb mic and getting a real asio audio interface and regular xlr mics.
ubs mics are mainly for podcasting and gamers.