New to GB guitar recording - Need some noise tips

Hello everyone,
I've finally got my 20" iMac, and now of course, I wanna record some guitar. I have a Traynor YCV80 tube amp, and i've come out of its line out into the imac's line in. I've done all the preference settings in GB and in system prefs itself. I'm leaving the amp in standby in the clean channel, just using the preamp tubes to amplify the signal, keeping most nobs at 12 o'clock, trying to stay as dry as possible. The problem i'm having is the clean sound straight from the amp into GB w/o any amp sims or such sounds horrible. The clean channel distorts and when I try to use an amp sim, they either crap out or get really noisy and muddy. I've tried adjusting the volumes, so the lower I take some of them, the more the signal cleans up but then its too weak to hear or work with. Could someone help me find a balance for the 40 million sound level slider in GB and what I should do with the actual amp's EQ itself so I can get a nice clean, crisp sound so I can then work with the amp sims and start to lay down some tracks.

I don't need amps anymore - just like
to crank 'em up to bother the wife.
The opposite being exactly why I've warmed up a lot to GBs software amp sims. I've no doubt that, for tone, nothing beats a mic'd up tube-driven stack moving plenty of air, but that's not really practical for me. Besides being able to tweak the amp settings in GB after the fact, I can record a roaring wall of guitar without more audible sound than a bit of plink and thwam from the strings. This means that my wife doesn't crucify me for cranking up amps at odd hours of the day or night
I've got a Gibson LP Std loaded with Bare Knuckle pickups <http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/> which I run into my iBook via a Tascam US-122. That works very well; not too noisy as long as I stand back from the computer a bit (though if I engage the coil tapping, things get significantly noisier!). I have used a Sansamp GT-2 pedal for distortion with GB (still using GB's noise gate and reverb, but none of the amp sims), but I find get very plausible tones with the GB amp sims (especially if I tweak up my own settings). I wish Apple provided an easy way for users to export their presets so that they could be shared. I've got a few amp presets using the stock GB amp sims that I quite like, but I'm sure other users have ones at least as good and likely better! It'd be nice to swap these things around and try out different tones. I guess I can zip up .cst or .pst files and put them on my web site, but then the downloader has to be savvy about where to put them, etc., etc.
I've looked at things like the PodXT and Vox Tonelab, but I like the "re-amping" capabilities of GB's amp sims. On the other hand, I've looked at things like the Nomad Rock Legends AU, but I worry about that overstressing my puir wee iBook's CPU (already quite stressed by GB on its own!).
Cheers,
Carl

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