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I have used one of these USB mic inputs, it was fantastic, much better than an M-Audio box that came with protools LE but used to crash a lot. You can use it for XLR and 1/4" mics, and can supply phantom power if required, and theres LEDs on the front so you can see the gain levels. This is obviously for connecting real microphones to the computer. for speech dictation the usb headsets are the way to go for convienience and quality, for recording any voice, singing or noises a USB soundcard can be affordable and vastly superior to the internal inputs. Toby On 2 November 2010 07:38, Nicklas Mikkelinen <[email protected]> wrote: > Usb works fine for me. I use a steelseries Siberia USB "soundcard" though. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2 nov 2010, at 07:39, Andrew Tett <[email protected]> wrote: > > The MacBook Pro appears to have two audio connectors, as you say, that > double as analogue and digital inputs and outputs. > > From experience, the analogue inputs are line level, and so you will need > something to boost the audio level from a microphone. As the computer > works totally with digital signals, all analogue has to be converted to > digital, either in the computer or via an external converter. If you are > using a simple dictation microphone, I doubt if you will need anything more > than a simple USB microphone adaptor, such as the Griffin iMic. > > Andrew > (Shoreham) > > On 1 November 2010 01:06, Jason Davies < <[email protected]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been trying to educate myself about mic inputs for my Mac Pro to >> little avail. It has: >> >> Optical digital audio input and output TOSLINK ports >> >> Analog stereo line-level input and output minijack [but don't 'inferior' >> macs have digital line in this way?) >> >> or there is USB (I have a half-decent USB mic) >> >> >> >> Are there any mics that use the TOSLINK ports? or are they strictly for >> real audio buffs running soundcards and mixers and such? >> >> I ask because i'm using Dragon Dictate-supplied mic which plugs into a USB >> adaptor and wondered if I could have something better than audio-converted >> to digital. >> >> cheers >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to <[email protected]> >> [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> <smug%[email protected]>[email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> <http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB> >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <smug%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
