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[ImRonBurgundy?]

so, i'm trying to record my guitar (DiPinto Galaxie IV) through my amp (Reverend 5-15 Goblin) into GarageBand 2. i started by mic'ing up my amp, using my Shure mic, but the mic picked up lots of background noise, and the sound quality of the guitar was absolute dog turd. my amp doesn't seem to have an audio out port, but there are a pair of jacks for an effects loop. now, from reading up on how these things work, in theory i should be able to send the amp's signal out to the computer and record it that way, right? however, i wanted to ask someone who has more experience with this sort of thing before doing anything that could potentially mess up my pricey boutique amp, or my pricey computer. thanks in advance!

[Mikendher]

there's no out port on the amp? that's weird. you can certainly just send your guitar signal to the computer and then add effects there. you would have to describe exactly what other ports are on your amp for me to say whether those can go to the computer.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

there's the effects loop output/input and then three speaker outputs, all classed for different resistances (4 ohm, 8 ohm--which the amp's speaker is plugged into, and 16 ohm), and there is no way in hell i am plugging my computer into one of those.

[Mikendher]

the FX out is what you want. I have done this with mixers before; that should work.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

thank you very much, kind sir.

THREAD OVAH.

not that there was much threat of anyone else posting in here, anyway...

[Gryff]

Ooh ooh! I can keep it alive! "Recordist" is not a word!

Uh... Yeah!

[blue dinosaur jr]

Where you using a DI box with the mic, or where you using the mic-in port on your soundcard?

If you were doing the latter, then I would expect it to sound like crap.  The mic-in port on a computer soundcard is meant for those tiny little high-impedance mics that used to come with computers, not a high quality, low-impedance mic like your Shure.  To use that port you need a DI box that will convert the signal to high-impedance then use the line-in port, not the mic-in port.

Or just get a mic mixer.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

actually, i figured out what my problem was about an hour after posting (and after trying to record through the effects send and being underwhelmed by the sound quality). for some reason GarageBand was reading the computer's built-in microphone as the line-in source, not the mic right in front of my amp. so, i switched it over, and it sounds fine. problem solved. thanks for your help, though!

[RefD]

do yourself a favour and stop using Garageband.

IOW, there are far better programs out there like Cubase and Logic, for heaven's sake!

[ImRonBurgundy?]

Garageband seems to be working just fine for me, thanks.