Recording via iMic

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Recording via iMic

Post by Editorpeter » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:02 pm

I installed audacity one my new macbook pro but it won't' recognize the signal from my phone via iMic. I am a journalist and have used audacity in the past to record interviews.
Then i got the new computer, downloaded the program and it doesn't record..

What am I doing incorrectly?

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Re: Recording via iMic

Post by kozikowski » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:37 pm

What am I doing incorrectly?
Maybe not very much. Did you select the USB device in the Input dropdown of the Audacity main window?

Better, Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input.

What's selected there? Select your USB device and make sure the little blue ball sound meter bounces when you have a voice. That's very important. If you can't clear that step, nothing you do in Audacity is going to help.

My iMic is just a simple sound digitizer with a USB cable on it. How did you connect it to a telephone? That's difficult to do well.

Koz

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