Bruce, Send me your snailmail address privately and I will happily send you a plaintalk mic to try. I have been selling omnidirectional mics and PlainTalk Mics for five years on ebay. The PlainTalk does not work with any apple faster than 433 Mhz. I would love to be proved wrong. Gary
Sent from my EyeFone On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > > > On Jan 29, 2009, at 7:44 AM, pat wrote: > >> >>> You do not need a powered mic like the plaintalk. Starting with the >>> early G4s, Apple switched to digital audio. You need a USB mic like >>> the Griffin iMic. >> >> So what is that sound-in port for? >> If I have a paintalk mic, can I plug it into the sound-in port? > > Gary is wrong. You can use a plaintalk mike. > > Apple's audio in was designed with audio pros more in mind, hence the > line-level input. Mic-level needs a preamp, true, but LOTS of audio > gear simply needs to be plugged right in. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---