[G4] Trouble with Griffin's iMic

[rich northouse]

Anne,

My iMic is a couple of years old, so it might be different than yours 
-- however I only have two jacks on it. One for input and the other for 
output. If yours is similar to mine, and you are using a Y connector, 
than perhaps you are shorting the input to the output. Perhaps you 
could remove the Y and just use one cable -- I believe one usually uses 
the left channel. Try that to see if the signal strength changes?  You 
might need a pre-amp to boast the signal level?

The older Macs came with a mic.  If you have access to one, try it as 
your input into the iMic. That won't solve your recording problem, but 
at least you will know more about getting a signal of some sorts into 
the machine!

My two-bits!

rich


On Mar 30, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

> 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
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