Mike...you proably use real good but maybe older equip...this is pretty low end equip I'm using but fairly simple and I think the quality is availble to it with a good knob turn or two...

I would assume you use the analog to digital convertors that are so expensive

No...nothing like that...a small less than a 100.00 mix board...

So Ted aren't you singing through one mic and using the other mic on the amp?
And recoring them both to the computer..

No...one mic directly between me and the amp...it is plugged straight into the mix board then into the computer...I sing toward the amp....the mic picks up the guitar sound from the amp and my voice as well....

Correct me if I'm wrong but everyone here that does not have sophisticated equipment does it this way?...Maybe someone can answer that for us...that was the impression I got....at least for home recordings...

If so wouldn't they go to separate tracks? even if your doing them live together...

No...just one track...now Audacity may have a setting for that...I have it set for stereo...maybe I can set it for mono...na...that won't seprate the tracks either pretty sure ...IDK

Thanks Mike...it sounds like after writing this that the major problem is in the set up...one mic/close to the amp/not using seprate tracks...but my guess is a lot of others on here do the same thing....the exceptions of course are those that have experience and equipment to do it right...