Basic Question Guitar Miking

[cablesweep]

Hello Everyone.. I am an electronics technician/engineer but new to sound recording. I have a PC Based Sonar Professional with an M Audio Sound Card. A Martin D35 with custom pickups into a marshall accoustic amp. A small yamaha mixer. I want to record solo demo guitar tracks for my son. Solo Guitar will be the only thing on the final songs.

... I have a sonar tutorial and have been able to record and can work my way through this.
I have the following questions.

If I mike coming out of the guitar amp what is the best mike $100 range.. Shure 57, 58?

This one is really basic and stupid so please forgive me... ( IF I record one track with one mike can I mix that single track as stereo using sonar or do I need two mikes?

Should I configure mikes through the mixer then maudio sound card or directly to the sound card?

Thank you

[cghazarian]

Well actually you could record stereo with just one mic that comes through your recording software. And I own an SM-58 and heard and used an SM-57 so I'm planning on purchasing one this week, would personally recommend an SM-57 awesome mic for amping. And its better if you feed the mic signal to the mixer then the sound card because you have a bit more control over the sound (bass, treble, phantom power)

Hope that was helpful,
Carl Ghazarian