Audio In for iBook

stevegongruistevegongrui
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I want to record myself playing the piano for University application but I don't have an audio in port on my iBook and the internal mic is faible. Is there any way I can perhaps rewire the wires which lead to the microphone and solder them on a female miniplug so I use my good mic? I know I can just the the iMic, but it is so expensive.



Please answer, this is an emergency

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 13
    newnew Posts: 3,244member
    usb mic. or DV cam...
  • Reply 2 of 13
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    use the iMic.
  • Reply 3 of 13
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    Expensive? Where are you looking? I bought one last year for $35. Not what I consider mega-bucks...



    That said, the soldering option is just going to mess up your iBook and probably give you poor sound.
  • Reply 4 of 13
    giantgiant Posts: 6,041member
    The imic is cheap and worth the money. It works very nicely.
  • Reply 5 of 13
    neutrino23neutrino23 Posts: 1,562member
    One more vote for the iMic. They are really good. They are now beta testing recording software to go with it called Final Vinyl. Looks good so far.
  • Reply 6 of 13
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,180member
    Yet another happy user of the iMic ...



    for the $35 bucks or so, it will give you the ability to use ANY microphone you might have, and also allow you to input sound from any other source you want. (a stereo, tv signal, etc).



    I feel I need to promote good / INexpensive items for the mac when I run across them.
  • Reply 7 of 13
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    a small note: it might be no more than 35 bucks in the US, but in Europe, you don't get an iMic for less than about 60 euro (which is a bit more expensive already). Anyhow, if somebody would know this not true (i.e. in the know of any EU based reseller) please correct me.
  • Reply 8 of 13
    rodukroduk Posts: 706member
    Here in the UK the iMic costs around 40 pounds (60 bucks). Not cheap, but if it helps to get your university application accepted, and you can make use of it on your course, it might be a good investment.
  • Reply 9 of 13
    newnew Posts: 3,244member
    Its 30£ on the UK applestore... then there is shipping ofcourse, but someone should be able to sell it for under 40£...
  • Reply 10 of 13
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    I had an attack of Early Adopter Syndrome and had one shipped from the States to the UK before anyone was selling them over here: ridiculously cheap, especially since Her Majesty's Customs and Excise were stupid enough not to charge me the VAT on it! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 11 of 13
    neutrino23neutrino23 Posts: 1,562member
    The new Griffith software, Final Vinyl, has an option to let you record LPs by connecting a turntable directly to the microphone input of the iMic or Powermate. They include equalization and gain needed to accomplish this. Pretty cool.
  • Reply 12 of 13
    stevegongruistevegongrui Posts: 771member
    Yes, it is significantly more expensive in Europe. If I do buy the iMic, what programme would I use to record? Does it come with one? Is it for OS X?



    I tried recording with simple sound in system 9 with the internal mic and it doesn't sound too bad. Is there a better app for sound recording and one that works in X?



    Thanks.
  • Reply 13 of 13
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    for recording, I used to use SoundEdit in os 8 and 9, but now, for X, there is an app that is almost as good, and shareware at that, and it is called Sound Studio. They are currently at version 2.something, and, as such, it works like a charm. It also allows waveform editing of your recording afterwards, and includes some basic effects (fade in/out, flanger, echo, reverb, equalize, ...) I especially love the waveform editing, which is perfect to really clip your sound to the right millisecond. I moreover have the impression that the app is somewhat faster than (macromedia) SoundEdit used to be (on the same computer...)



    I believe there is something simpler called audiocorder available, but I don't know if that's available for X.



    I also think you could use Peak (probably any of the various versions) - which is slightly more advanced - waveform editing of mp3's and multiple track sound notably -.



    Anyway, my message: Sound Studio by felttip software.
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