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crenz
Aug 8, 2004, 12:36 PM
I want to connect a headset to an old beige G3 (266 MHz) that runs Mac OS X 10.2.6. Unfortunately, the microphone doesn't work. I don't quite understand why:


The whole headset works on my PowerBook (headphones + microphone)
The headphones part works on the beige G3
If I plug in the headphones as microphone, I can record just fine with Audacity on both channels (you knew that you can use headphones as a mike, didn't you :cool: ).
Once I plug in the microphone into the microphone input, no signal is recorded
The headphones jack and microphone jack look identical (same length etc.)


I'm really stumped. Anybody know what's the problem?



Horrortaxi
Aug 8, 2004, 01:47 PM
Have you enabled the mic in System Preferences?

crenz
Aug 9, 2004, 09:56 AM
Well, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to record using the headphones. So it seems everything is turned on okay.