And Tom45, what giayank is saying is all very very TRUE. Just jump in and START. In the VJR, with Audacity, you don't even really have to play a solo all the way through non-stop. You can lay down as many tracks as you want in Audacity. If need be, you could do a solo one lick at a time with each lick on a different track ... repeated as many times as necessary to get that lick recorded good. Each track has its own playback level you can set, so before exporting your bit, you can play it back and adjust those levels to your heart's content until the whole solo sounds "seamless". Of course it would take a bit of time to do that, but so long as you post a "I'm working on this" message, you have all the time in the world.[/color]
RR, I don't have Audacity but I use another wav editor and I think it will do this also. I'll have to look into it. As far as recording right now the only way I can record is through a microphone. I haven't done any recording yet and don't even have a microphone. So I have a couple of questions:
If everyone else is recording directly into their computer and when I add my 12 bars I use a microphone to record from my amp, will this reduce the quality of the recording?
I will be playing through my Yahama THR10c and with those small speakers I don't think it's going to sound very good. Yes, I know this amp has a usb port for recording but it won't work with Win XP.
If this will sound okay, what kind of microphone would work best for recording from an amp?