Hey all..

So sorry to have left things to slide like this. I've played my guitar about 4 times in the last 2 weeks, not including my weekly Church gig.. It's been so hectic with the apartment purchase but good news it that it settles on Tuesday so hopefully I will under less stress and will have more energy and focus to not only play but keep the ball rolling here.

Slimtao - I use a free recording package called Reaper. You can get it here: http://reaper.fm/

Another free one some people use is called Audacity, which you can find here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Reaper is a proper recording package, where as Audacity is more of a sound editor so both will do the job but Reaper is more suited to music production. The only thing is you really shouldn't be plugging your guitar straight into your computer's soundcard. You could do your soundcard some damage. The cheapest thing I have come across to get your guitar/bass plugged into a computer, with a satisfactory quality, is called a StealthPlug. You may need to fork out more than you were wanting for this but I still use this even though I have a proper audio interface device now.

It's exactly like having a standard guitar lead that ends in a USB plug. Mine came packaged with some decent recording software but I prefer the free Reaper package simply because it is faster, cleaner and easier to use. You should seriously consider getting one of these if you are on a budget and want to start doing some recording. There may be other budget alternatives out there but I can't comment on them because I haven't tried them.

You can find the stealthplug info here: http://www.stealthplug.com/