signal not coming through the direct jack on laptop

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Recording with external microphone onto a Mac

Recording with external microphone onto a Mac

How to connect a mic to the macbookpro will depend a lot on what kind of mic… Do you already have one? Or planing on buying one? Some computers have a shared mic/line input, but apparently on recent macs they only come with line-in. Therefore you’ll most likely need a preamp. Which one to get will depend on the mic you’re going to use with it (whether you need phantom power or not, etc…) One of the cheapest I’ve seen is T-Bone’s micplug, which is an XLR to usb device, powered from the usb and …