[Ti] sound-line in

[Tarik Bilgin]

On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 11:59  am, nick weldin wrote:

> You could buy an external preamp for the mic so you can still plug it 
> in to the audio line in on your powerbook, although you will probably 
> get better quality plugging into an iMic (sound in on laptops is often 
> not very high quality conversion and is prone to picking up noise from 
> other components around it on the laptop motherboard).
>
> You can get tiny usb hubs that are about the size of a usb plug, or if 
> you have a powerbook with a pcmcia slot a usb card for that.
>
> Another alternative would be one of those microphones that has a usb 
> plug on it rather than an audio plug.


another option is a PCMCIA based sound card with a line in and a line 
out. I believe this would give you superior sound quality to the iMic 
(the iMic is pretty good btw) and cost around 100-150 dollars.

Can't remember the name of it at the moment. Google for it maybe?

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Tarik