Originally Posted by: SuperhumanOne of those mics you see in a pc shop just wouldnt cut it, the sound would actually be worse than if you played straight into the line-in on the pc.

I've actually heard some decent recordings using a regular computer mic. It defanately sounds a butt load better than straight into the computer. Guitar signal straight into a computer with no tone coming from the cabinet, speakers, and room = horrible tone! Hurts my ears just thinking about it. If you did go straight in, you would defanately need some kind of cabinet and mic simulator to make is sound like a real amp. Personally, when I don't want to mic my amps, I use my Peavey Rockmaster (all tube preamp) into a PODxt then from from the PODxt into my soundcard. I only use the POD for cabinet and mic sims, and a little post eq for fine tuning if needed.