Hi Chris. thank you very much.
In fact I have a really good USB mic, but the software for the mac is not accessible at all, and therefore I can not adjust the recording level. It is the 900usb stereo mic from xml. Best regards Annie. 2010/4/30, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com>: > This has been covered before but generally there are three audio signal > levels: speaker, line and mic. Obviously speakers are high powered while > line level is the output you typically get from a CD player (not > headphone) or DVD player. Mic levels are very very tiny. There is a > diaphragm which vibrates with the sound in the air and moves a tiny coil > of wire near a magnet, generating a very small electrical signal. All > this means is that your Mac has a line-in jack expecting line-level > signals while mics produce something much much smaller. So to use most > mics with a mac you need something called a pre-amp. Pre-amps take the > tiny mic signal and, without adding a lot of noise, boost it up a couple > multiples. > > So if all you want is a mic to skype with you could just go with some > USB all-in-one. If you want better quality then you'll want to get a > real mic and a preamp. Something cheap like this: > > http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TubeMP/ > > and a basic Shure SM58 would be a good start. > > CB > > Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I have been trying with more microphones, if I could use an external >> microphone. I found one that I could connect to the line in, but the >> recordings is very low. I have a mac book pro with one mic/headphone >> and then I have the line in. Is there any way I could use the >> headphone/mic for an external mic. >> >> Best regards Annie. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
