Quote Originally Posted by FrankenWashie View Post
There is a dedicated Rode interface i found online that seems reasonably priced around similar money to the Focusrite

http://en.rode.com/ai1

Reading up I can see I'm going to need to do something in an interface if I want to go straight into GarageBand anyhow. I'll see what other options are around and look at picking one up.
Yeah you will need an interface for GB. I have a little M-Audio 2 track, the Scarletts are pretty good as well and both of those are around the $100 mark.

Unless you mic an amp into GB it won't give a really 'true' representation of the guitar tone. It's absolutely unreal at modelling and can make even a garbage guitar sound great when you line in the instrument.

To get an accurate recording you can just do a plain track with no effects on it and from a mic through the interface. That's what I normally do for my crappy demos, but my mic is extra shitty so I end up with some of the issues you have if I have the gain up or any distortion effects. A decent directional mic and playing around with placement will yield good results though.

For someone messing around on their own GB is an absolute god send.

I'm a big fan of it and have a lot of experience, I've been using it since v 1.0. So .. any Q's ask away.