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I got an Auxiliary Audio Cable for Audacity and recording stuff from my Amplifier ( On guitar ).
But... I can't get any sound whats so ever. I recorded with a USB mic, but sometimes the quality would suck, and you could hear the strumming in the back round = /.
My friend managed to do it, but he had a lot of fuz in the backround.
If anyone could tell me how to connect/setup the Auxiliary Cable, and be able to control the fuz ( If possible ), I would much appreciate it.
And if there is some other name for the Auxiliary Cable, I wouldn't know. Just any info. I'm missing out on would appreciated too.

What sort of sound card do you have?
Is this an electric guitar?
Please give a full description.

I have a chord to plug my ELECTRIC guitar up to my amp, so I can play and get sound from the amp playing the guitar. ( As if that wasn't obvious, and I went and made it complicated )
THEN, I have an Auxiliary Cable, which is basically a double sided Mic or headphone jack. Here is a picture

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 7029959516

And i have it hooked up to the MP3/CD outlet on the amplifier to a MIC outlet on the computer, ( I have about 3 mic plugins, 2 on the Tower, and one on the Monitor )
Like i said, my friend managed this just fine. I have Windows.
And that's about as detailed as I can get for yah = /

<<<My friend managed to do it, but he had a lot of fuz in the backround.>>>

He had a lot of fuzz because there is a very great level mismatch between the Mic-In on the sound card and the guitar, monitor, or Line-Out of an amplifier.

If you have a deskside machine, you can move the plug to the Line-In of the sound card, change the Windows Preferences to go looking for it, set up Audacity and go to town.

Windows Control Panel
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... trol_Panel

If you only have a Mic-In connection -- very typical of PC laptops, then you lose. Your only options are find somebody with a nice Mac or buy an external USB sound card -- or buy a deskside PC with all the different audio connections available.

Koz

Those are a lot of big words for me.
I don't know what a sound card is.
I THINK you mean desk side machine, like a Computer with a tower and all.
I don't know much about this stuff.
I tried looking at the sound settings and stuff. But... Nothing I tried worked.

Like really, I didn't undertsand any of what you just said Koz. But thanks a lot, I appreciate the help.

I'm trying to get an adaptor for the POD jack on the amplifier. I think that's what I need, and I may be wrong, but the POD jack, ( With the adaptor ) sends sounds FROM the amplifier. It was the most logical thing I could think of, Like the MP3/CD jack, just plays sound from another ... thing, and you can hear it through the amp.
The POD jack, it's what you use to hook the POD up to, and you can get the adaptor to listen through some headphones. And the Auxiliary cable, might be able to to send it to the computer. I'm not real sure if it'll work. But it sounds the most logic for me.

All this difficult computer stuff, changing the settings, and all these big words and stuff just aren't for me

Lets go for the simple stuff then

You have a "tower" computer and it has several audio sockets on it.
One socket will be a headphone output (for sound coming OUT of the computer).
One will be a microphone input (for sound coming from a MICROPHONE, IN to the computer).
You may also have a "Line In" connection. You need to check this - do you have a manual? Can you look it up on Google?

The microphone input is not suitable because it is designed for a microphone, which is a very low signal level. If you connect a big signal from a headphone socket, or an iPod socket, then it will come out fuzzy because the signal is too strong for a microphone input.

Well I managed to get the thing to work.
All i needed was that adaptor for the POD jack on the amplifier.
And thanks a whole lot for those of you who were helping me.
But now I have 2 other little problems.
-I do in fact have a bit of back round noise when I'm recording. How do i get rid of it?
You don't notice it at all when I'm playing, but when I have the volume on the guitar all the way down, or I'm muting the strings, it comes up again. I usually just silence it. But I'm sure there's a way to get rid of it?
-When I am recording two lead parts over another, like playing harmonics ( cause it sounds really awesome ) When I am listening to what I have recorded BEFORE, and I am recording another guitar part over it. I play the songs almost PERFECTLY in sync with each other, at least from what I'm hearing. When I go back and listen to finished product ,( =PP ) The riffs are off by a little more than a 1/4 second, or more. Now, I think it might have to do with how I'm recording these things, but SOMETIMES it manages to sync together. OR I could be just hearing off o.O, but I'm 99.99% ( No lie on the percentage ) sure I'm playing in sync, my friend even said I was when he heard how the riffs were off after watching me record it. I'm very sure there is a way to fix that, if it's an after recording thing or something I can adjust on the settings so it'll work all the time, or whatever.