I have a mic plugged directly into my sound card and the sound quality is perfect.
I also have my guitar amp's line out going straight into the line in of my sound card. Now, the problem is that it records extremely quietly. At first I thought it wasn't working until I added a compression effect to make the sample louder. Using the compression effect works ok I get pretty good sound quality but I was wondering if any of you guys know of any way that I can just have my amp going straight to the computer and recording at normal level. I've considered a mixer but what if that doesn't work, then it will be a waste of my money and even if it does work, using a mixer seems like overkill. Keep in mind I have NO MONEY!