The best way to go from your guitar to your computer is through your amp.
If you want to plug your guitar into your computer's mike jack, you could buy a plug adapter for your amp cable and plug it in. The problem is the sound transmitted to the computer will be at a very low volume. The better approach is to plug your guitar into your amp and your amp into your computer; that way, you'll have much better volume and a whole range of additional effects. Using this approach requires one more cable and, of course, a jack adapter.
Instructions
1. Plug your guitar's amplifier cable into the amplifier.
2. Plug one end of the male-to-male patch cord into the headphone jack on the amplifier.
3. Plug the other end of the patch cord into the female end of the plug adapter; plug the other end of the plug adapter into the microphone jack on the computer.
4. Set the guitar and the amp to their lowest volumes. Turn on the amp.
5. Start your recording software. Set the recording source to the microphone. Turn the microphone volume down to a low setting.
6. Put on the headphones. Start the software recording by clicking the red "Record" button.
7. Raise the recording level in the recording software to about the middle of the range. Then turn up your guitar volume knob to 5.
8. Slowly increase the volume level on the amp until you can hear a clear sound through the headphones. Adjust the guitar, amp and software recording level until you get a signal that's close to the top of the green zone on the software's monitor bars.
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