I've been recording using our condenser mic and and Dual pre-amp adapter into the computer via USB. It seems to work very well, although I am obviously no audio engineer.

After my last major crash, I gave up on IE8 (now use Safari) and am giving up on this old Dell desktop. Some of my software limps along haltingly, like WORD 2002 et al. Time to get a new computer and new software, and want it to be portable as well as good enough to continue my recording project.