Of course! That's the only way to know if you've got a clean recording. *rim hit*

That's f**king hardcore! I'm so doing that for my EP

while I'm taking a shower right?

Do some Led Zeppelin shit, line out to an amp, bottom of a stairwell, put a mic at the top of the stairwell

Yeah, what Krubbz said. The speakers are so quiet and awful that it doesn't worth the trouble, since you can plug it to line in cheaper and faster than micing it.

But, if you record from bigger speakers it might make some lo-fi sense. A guitar (bass would be better) amp would do the trick.

You know, this is an interesting topic to bring up.  I've always found it easier to record line in, but you could get some interesting sounds by mic-ing up an amp, or even mic-ing a room with a speaker at one end.  It could sound cool.  I might try it.  As for mic-ing the speaker on the Gameboy, I probably wouldn't do it for much because it's not a good speaker.

Recording with a microphone kind of makes sense for an intro, but only if you had a microphone already plugged in and set up. Have you looked into any sort of post-processing? If you just want a hi-pass filter on some arpeggios, you can whip that up using the line-in. All it would take is audacity.

theres also the black metal alternative: record the speaker with an earbud

Maybe turn energy saving off if you're running an older version of LSDJ, or run from battery if you're using an adapter. I like how it sounds as an effect within a metal track but I think in a finished mix you'd want a more varied pallette of tones... The part where it sounded best imo was ~2:24 where it splits that heavy section right in two and adds a bit of drama.

Wow, Surprisingly good, was surprised it actually turned out well.

Just finished a rough mix of the song I'm working on with the gameboy mic'd up. Mix needs a lot of adjust, but this is the sound I was going for.

http://soundcloud.com/settings-shtml/tr … -rough-mix

I use line in on my mac, it works just fine for me, but I also have an m-audio pro usb interface, that shit bringz it to a whole nother level!

Oh God, same here...with any luck, I can get my half stack in there past the sliding glass doors

Doooo eeeeeett!!

It's not a bad idea at all. That small speaker has an effect to it as well.
If you use it properly in a mix, it'll sound interesting for sure.

I'm thinking a small diaphragm mic.
Røde M3 is perhaps a good cheap alternative.

http://www.thomann.de/gb/rode_m3.htm