[G4] Trouble with Griffin's iMic

[Anne Keller-Smith]

Hi -

I'm headed to the Radio Shack to get another RCA cable tomorrow, 
because the contacts are VERY tight on the one I have now, and maybe 
I'm not getting a good seat.

I'm trying to record audio from cassette from a Sharp Integrated Music 
System (this was a fine thing in its day, I'm sure, has a turntable to 
boot). The RCA cable fits into the AUX ports on the tape system. The 
other end of the RCA cable fits into the Y cable that goes into the 
iMic. The iMic gets plugged into one of the main USB ports on the back 
of my Mac.

Apple System Profiler sees the iMic.

Speech and Sound in System Preferences both see it, but the sliders 
don't register sound input - specifically, the Sound input is greyed 
out and the Speech sliders show some input but on the low end. In both 
of these I can select the iMic.

When I try to record in both iMovie and Final Vinyl, there's no decibel 
level and there's no playback. In iMovie, the Record Music panel is 
greyed out - that seems suspicious of something.

I've followed all of Griffin's directions, FAQs and support materials 
on their site and also done email correspondence. Griffin says they'll 
send me a new one. Or, I should upgrade to 10.2.8 (!!!) because perhaps 
the OS isn't supporting the iMic.

Anybody with my OS version got one of these puppies to work? Anyone any 
ideas? As always, many, MANY thanks.


Anne Keller Smith
Down to Earth Web Design
G4 733mHz (OS X 10.2.8/Classic)
896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive
mailto:earthpigz at earthlink.net
http://www.downtoearthweb.com