Hooking up my guitar to my mac

ok, maybe its me maybe its not, but i dont get it. is there a way to hook up my guitar to my mac via the mic jack? so far, the only thing ive tried (can try for the moment) was to connect my guitar to my amp and had another cable running from the headphone jack or the speaker jack. i use a 1/4 cable from my amp to a 1/8 adapter to the mic. ive changed the settings in my system preferences to built-in input and ive changed it in garageband...no luck. i dont hear sound but yet the volume bar is through the roof. any suggestions?

rquinn21 wrote:
i only wish i had connected my guitar up to a mic, at the least then the situation would be funnier
What you did makes sense in terms of signal flow, connecting the output of one thing into the input of the other. It's just the levels were a bit... uneven. You might want to test your mic input and see if perhaps, perchance, the Audio Gods happened to be on your side and spared grilling your circuitry, this time.
On the other hand, you could just get a USB interface that would let you connect your guitar into its guitar input at the right level and impedance, and then plug the interface into the USB port of the computer. That way, you might never need to use the ashes of your mic input again, and could go about the rest of your days pretending as if it doesn't now and never did exist. Mic input? What mic input? It will simply be a private scar, a secret between you, your computer, and this thread, that no one else ever has to know about.

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