Brand New & I want to connect some guitars....

Heya All,
I'm brand new to Garageband. Well, brand new to the mac environment full stop. I must say I'm loving the switch.
I'm pretty keen to start recording GarageBand - most likely limited to Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Percussion and Vocal Mics.
Now - I'd be super surprised if the inbuilt mic in my shiny new macbook would cut the cake in terms of being able to get a quality sound. I'm assuming that you have to plug into the box to get the best sound quality... however, I'm concerned that if I were to plug an output from our P.A. into the mic slot in the macbook that it might blow the sound card.
Soooo... is there a specific way to do it, or a "best practice" for this?
Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully this could be a resourceful thread for other budding garageband-ists!
Cheers!
Dan

If you were slogging through the thehangtime.com
site, the FAQ is pretty good, but slightly out of
date. My update will happen before the end of this
year (or I'll do something very bad to my wrists, if
not other parts), but in the meantime I have a more
up-to-date FAQ at thegaragedoor.com
Cool - I'll check that out! Thanks!
Feel free to
post about your exact needs, and you're almost
guaranteed to get more than a couple of responses
Ooh - what a question! My exact needs....
Well - like any newbie - I really don't know.. but what I can say is the background to my use - which may help identify some of my needs.
I'm pretty keen to start recording some tracks that I've written. They're not for serious production or sending off to the radio station or anything - just for me.
However, I play in an acoustic duo and we'd like to get some tracks cut for a demo for the local venues. That comprises of two acoustic guitars and two mics. Very raw.
Likely instruments to be recorded:
- Acoustic Guitar(s)
- Epiphone Les Paul Gothic
- Microphone(s)
- Standard Percussion (tamborine, shaker-egg etc)
- Bass
It's likely that drum work will be done in GB from loops etc.
So I guess I want to be able to input those instruments to produce the best quality sound (within budget-based-reason) on the macbook without frying the sound card.
Oh ***, here's a cracker! (Ouch! HEY! you didn't
mention that you bite!)
Many, many inappropriate responses just flew through my mind.
Okay, getting into Write-Mode now... Have a good "My
Tomorrow Evening"
Cheers buddy. Will do!! Going to avoid the marking I have to do and sink my head into iMovie tonight for debaucherous party-dvd production.

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