Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-03 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Santa wrote: even shouting will not drive the blue bars past half way. Hey Santa! I do audio recording for a small town radio station on both eMac and iBook (both G4's), usually using QuickTime. I rarely see the blue bars go up to, or even past half way. I assume that Apple uses some sor

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/12/03 07:54, Walter Sheluk so eloquently wrote: if you are near RadioShack or an electronics store there is a audio microphone "booster" that may help or may be the answer for your low input level. You should not have to buy more hardware to use features that are supposed to work on t

Re: Screen resolution on TV

2010-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Clark Martin wrote: > > Viewing the computer screen via HDMI is MUCH better than trying to using > S-Video or NTSC composite video. Kind of like the difference between sitting > in front of the screen and sitting about 40 feet away, respectively. Aslo generally be

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-03 Thread Clark Martin
On Dec 1, 2010, at 11:58 PM, OzSanta wrote: > G'day Tina > > I'm using the built in mic. > > However, even a usb mic won't drive the bars very high unless I talk about an > inch away from the mic, and even then, quite loudly. > > I've trashed the Audio preferences, to no avail. I've lodged a

Re: Screen resolution on TV

2010-12-03 Thread Clark Martin
On Dec 2, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Mystic Prowler wrote: > It has 2 HDMI ports but that's about it. Well, you only need one to drive it from the computer. You can get either a DVI to HDMI cable or a DVI to HDMI adapter and an appropriate cable to connect the TV to the computer. Viewing the computer

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-03 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-12-02 12:58 AM, OzSanta wrote: unless I can figure out why the input is so low. Your problem is certainly perplexing to me. As we sound engineers sometimes say: be sure you're high and then tone it down: Albeit you are not doing "speech recognition" when you select system preference

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/12/02 00:58, OzSanta so eloquently wrote: I'm using the built in mic. However, even a usb mic won't drive the bars very high unless I talk about an inch away from the mic, and even then, quite loudly. You mentioned that it is new, is it still under warranty? If so I say it's Apple's r

Re: Screen resolution on TV

2010-12-03 Thread Mystic Prowler
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Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-03 Thread OzSanta
G'day Tina I'm using the built in mic. However, even a usb mic won't drive the bars very high unless I talk about an inch away from the mic, and even then, quite loudly. I've trashed the Audio preferences, to no avail. I've lodged a hardware bug report to Apple. Line-in mics need a hi-gain mi