External microphone MacBook Pro

Just use a USB mic. I have a Blue Yeti and love it.

Hi,

you need a USB sound card.

Something like this.

Bruno09 said:

Hi,

you need a USB sound card.

Something like this.

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Yeah. You need one of these: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=usb+sound+card+++osx

Get a USB Mic!

SandboxGeneral said:

Just use a USB mic. I have a Blue Yeti and love it.

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This. I have a Blue Snowball and I am rather fond of it as well. No adapters or USB sound cards are required for these microphones. My Blue mic is neither blue nor icy but it works just fine. The Yeti is a higher quality mic. The Snowball Ice is a less expensive model with a limited feature set. If you shop for Blue mics, be sure that you understand that the Snowball is different than the Snowball Ice!

You can plug a microphone into the headphone jack.
It just needs to have a TRRS tip (one with four bands instead of the usual three).
If you have a pair of the official Apple earbuds with microphone built-in you can test this out.
Or any earbuds with a microphone.
Go to the Sound panel in System Preferences and click on the input tab.
Watch the input as you plug in the headphones and it should change from internal mic to external mic.

The connection on the computer is TRRS. So it's both a stereo headphone and a mic jack. You'll need an adapter to plug in a mic that's not specifically TRRS like headphone/mic combos.

Get something like this and you should be all set:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0NMDKNDQYNX8EK051A28