Record With My New Imac Options

[bubblingpeter]

hi there,
last week i tried the new powerbook g4 of a friend of mine, fell in love with that wonderful creature, i decided to try out a program for guitar from native-instruments (guitarrig),i noticed that worked pretty well and with almost no latency, but the input volume was anyway to low, and when i tried to turn it up the guitar went in orrible feedback.
so i just ordered an iMac g5, that i guess should go way better on prestations, but i really don't know if it's going to work the way i want.
do i need an amplifier for my mixer to get the sound into the computer with a good recording level?
I don't know much about the internal soundcard either.
thanx for your opinions.
greets Pietro

[Psychoprick]

In the System prefferences (the white square with apple logo in your dock) you can select input/output and levels under the sound item. Hope that answers a question.

Further:
For me was my line-in good enough for guitar but absolutely not for a mike. So I had to buy me some gear.
Had some advice in this thread

The built in mic is for speech and is good for that but not for singing etc...

Hope that helps.