Line-In Recording on Macbook Pro

Okay, so I just recently purchased a new MBP, and occasionally I like to record acoustic guitar via cable to the laptops built-in input. For some reason whenever I record the input is very low and hardly audible unless I crank up the dial on my mic settings on the guitar itself, which doesn't produce a clear sound. This happens in both Logic and GarageBand, and I've made sure that the Line-In input volume in system pref. was set to max.
Before I got the new macbook pro I had the 1st Gen which recorded fine, does anybody know why the new ones do this?
Thanks

No idea, they may have changed the input somehow.
Something like this would work better for you:
http://tiny.cc/cxMKT

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