leopard compatible mic?

[mark2288]

I'm looking to buy a mic. I had a labtec one that fit into the 3.5 mm slot, but it seems it doesn't work with Leopard. it may just be broken, but i know several people have noticed their mics don't work with leopard. anyhow i heard USB mics are pretty compatible.

anyone have any luck with this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836111601

it's not for anything too serious, just WoWing....

thanks all!

 

[yippy]

The problem with 3.5mm mics has nothing to do with Leopard but instead the hardware. ALL Apple line in ports are "line in" not mic which means to use a mic with them you need a pre-amp.

Just about any USB mic should work. Alternately, you can get a USB pre-amp like the iMic and that will also allow you to use a mic with a 3.5mm jack.

 

[todd2000]

as yippy said, it isn't Leopard it is the port. I can tell you that the Logitech is a nice USB mic though. I used to have one on my powermac G4, before I bought my iMac.

 

[mark2288]

ah okay. thanks for clarifying...i'll go ahead with the logitech then. thanks!

 

[tbo]

Mic or line-in?

Now, if the supposed mic-port is actually line-in (which works quite alright), why then does XP SP3 running with Parallels accept the line-in port as mic port?
In other worde: I can record with a Sony condenser mic using Windows virtualization, but not with Leopard natively (or least only faintly). This makes absoluely no sense to me, except if the line-in port is somehow crippled by the Mac OS.
Do I have to start XP only to use the Macs mic port?