I use a different set up. I go from line out on my soundcard to aux in on my hi-fi amplifier and from headphones out on the amp to line in on my soundcard. This set up allows me to record tapes and lps onto my computer as well as recording from computer to tape (my tape deck has manual settings)and seems to work well for me.

The next bit of kit I want to get is some sort of small mixer to allow me to have more than 1 mike input as I am not finding using one mike for guitar and voice satisfactory.

The speaker out socket on my soundcard is not used for anything.

Jon

Jon