Back in my early
adolescence, when I first learned to play the
guitar and write songs, I didn't have the money to buy a
microphone, or the
guts to explain to my mom why I would want one (though that seems silly
in retrospect, I was a rather
strange teenager; I'm still somewhat
strange, but that's beside the point). So, I took my mother's good
headphones and plugged them into the
mic input. I had discovered this
technique by
accident not long before I started playing.
I still have the tapes. They consist of me not so much singing as screaming so that I could be heard above the guitar, which was closer to the "microphone" than my mouth was. The sound quality isn't too bad, but that probably depends on the quality of the headphones to begin with.
The songs are pretty decent for a thirteen-year-old. Not good, but decent.