Yep, that's right about the Mic, then again! Mic's come in all shapes and sizes and the problem is the exact reverse on my Netbook for example, it takes a Mic but hates line in sources, never successfully got it to work with one until I started using an external sound device.
On 19/04/2012, at 11:59 AM, Brent Harding wrote: > That is such a lovely thing, and with Audio Hijack you can route anything > where you want, but not so confusing as the big numbers of audio repeaters. > The one thing that kind of took me off guard is that a mac book will not take > an analog mic directly, so it needs to be a USB one or something at the line > or digital in. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dane Trethowan" <d.tretho...@me.com> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 6:33 PM > Subject: Re: multiple audio devices versus VAC > > >> Firstly, - unless you're talking a Mac Pro System - the Mac does not take >> sound cards, all Mac machines have a built-in analogue/digital audio >> input/output to start with which are probably useful for most situations. >> >> If you wish to add a sound device then this is done using the USB ports, I >> use several different sound devices with my Mac including a Fastrak mixer, >> Imic, external speakers, microphone and headphones. >> >> As a Windows user as well as a Mac user it would seem to me that handling of >> multiple sound devices on a Mac is far smoother, set the device and >> associated settings and forget them, no crashes, no tandtums thrown by the >> operating system about multiple sound devices etc. >> >> I use Windows 7 here on my Windows machines with multiple sound devices, >> I've had occasions where the machine has selected the wrong device even >> though I specifically set it to a particular sound device, I've had times >> where the Windows machine has just totally given up and crashed and so on, >> with the Mac I've had none of this so if you want better audio management >> they yep! look at a Mac for sure. >> >> The other thing that I really like about the Mac's audio management is that >> you don't have to worry about the Screen Reader interfering with whatever >> applications stream you wish to record, for example suppose you wish to >> capture a sound stream from the Internet, you just configure your software >> such as Audio Hijack Pro, to record that stream and you don't have to worry >> about what your Screen Reader or any other audio application/device is >> doing, neat! >> >> >> On 19/04/2012, at 8:58 AM, Joe Paton wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would be curious to know what does VAC do that can not be achieved with >>> multiple sound cards? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Joe >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
