Hello Courtney, If this helps, here's what I get on my mid-2011 Air running Lion 10.7.2 when attempting to use the built-in internal microphone, a set of iPhone earbuds with inline microphone plugged into the audio port, and a Blue Snowball USB microphone. The following information comes from System Preferences / Sound / Input tab / Sound input devices table.
1. With no external audio input devices plugged in my list of input devices shows a single entry with a name of "Internal Microphone" and a type of "Built in." 2. When I insert a set of iPhone earbuds into the audio jack, the list of choices in the sound input devices table remains at just one item but that item changes to a name of "External microphone" while retaining a type of "built in." 3. When I remove the iPhone earbuds and plug in the Snowball USB microphone an entry with name of "Blue Snowball" and type of "USB" is added to the sound input devices table. In this scenario I now have two entries: the blue snowball and internal microphone. 4. If I plug in both the iPHone earbuds and the USB Snowball microphone, the list of input choices reverts to just one choice: the one named "External microphone" with type of "built in" which refers to the iPhone earbuds. HTH, Bryan On Nov 18, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Courtney Curran wrote: > There's no menu that says "use audio port for" on my macbook air, so > therefore, I can't record from a line-in source. I can only record from the > external mic. Does anyone have an answer as to why this may be. It's a 2010 > macbook air with a 64 gb hard drive. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
