Recording music with T420

Hi all,
I newly received a Lenovo T420. I would like to record some music.. How to record a guitar or a bass with a Lenovo T420? Where should I plug the audio input and with which kind of jack? I have tried using a normal jack to combo audio mini jack cable, plugged in the combo mini jack input of the computer, but there is no answer.
Thanks!
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Well that is the jack and you'll have to get a spiltter adapter likely which takes the 4 pin 3.5mm and creates a separate Mic, & Speaker jack. I don't know why they did this and don't tell me this is a new standard. Thats a crock its a pain for generic audio connections and the space is always there. They have them on cell phones but its not as big an issue there on computers, discrete ports are needed. Fire that engineer and send him back to the back country working the rice fields.
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