hi, im pretty new at this. I have been recording at my house for about 8 months now and i can get my accoustic and vocals to sound great. i have tried nemerous times to record my electric and that would also work great untill i tried to use distortion (recorded wet). when i tried to use first my amp's distortion (Fender hot rod deville 410). then my pedal (Boss medal zone), and it sounds nothing like my guitar. it sounds like the really crappy digital distortion in acid. i thought i was over distorting the computer so i turned the gain down, but even with the gain as low as it goes it still sounds like crap. i have talked to a lot of different people about this and it stumps all of them. i am recording into a preamp then into my computer. i have checked and the guitar sounds fine at the preamp so it has to be the computer. i have tried recording with my line-in and with my mike. it sounds the same both ways. i want to try splitting the signal into wet and dry and then mixing them together but my sound card only has one mono input so i cant do that. do you guys have any ideas?