[Ti] sound-line in

[nick weldin]

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.

>Gerry, Barry...
>thanks for the explanation and confirmation. I thought it was 
>something like that.
>So I need to get an external A/D converter like the Griffin Imic ?
>
>This brings up the problem of needing 3 usb ports then since the 
>Imic will take up one usb port I still need two available.
>.
>I guess I would have to buy some type of usb hub so i can have more than
>2 usb ports.
>
>Any one have suggestions on usb work arounds so I can run 2 usb
>ports off one in my tibook while using the other usb port for the 
>Griffin Imic?
>
>thanks again for your help.
>cheers
>tim
>
>On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 08:06  PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
>
>>on 03/10/17 15:37, T Molnar at tam at em.ca wrote:
>>
>>I bought my tibook used without a manual, but since no one replied I'll give
>>this a shot.  Someone correct me if I'm wrong....
>>
>>In the audio business, there is "mic level", which is very low, several
>>millivolts, and "line level", which is much higher, several hundred
>>millivolts.  I believe that the line input on a to bit is "line level",
>>which means it won't work with your microphone.  It's also a 3-conductor
>>stereo jack, which your mic is probably 2-conductor monaural.
>>
>>You need a preamplifier to boost up the level etc., or more practically, an
>>external A/D converter which will handle either mic or line level, such as
>>the Griffin iMic (which is not a microphone, but that's another issue).  It
>>has a switch on it to select "mic level" or "line level".
>>
>>
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