MacBook Question (audio)

[clv101]

How good are MacBooks at recording audio? I go to a lot of conferences and make sound recordings of the proceedings - would a MacBook be able to make decent recordings with an external microphone. They do have a microphone socket don't they?

 

[unknowndomain]

They dont have a mic port but you can get a belkin product which is usb based creating another audio in and out, and as far as I am aware the recording quality is down the the software you use, compression used and the microphone, in which case the macbook would be fine if you know what I mean?

 

[nav...]

*wonders what he plugged microphone into to get it to work with skype...*

 

[unknowndomain]

*wonders what he plugged microphone into to get it to work with skype...*

My mistake i got confused lol, there is a line in port on it which you can plug a mic in but its a small jack not a big one.

 

[Al Vallario]

My mistake i got confused lol, there is a line in port on it which you can plug a mic in but its a small jack not a big one.

The technical specifications say it comes with a 'Combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack)'

Sounds more than adequate to me

*av

 

[unknowndomain]

The technical specifications say it comes with a 'Combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack)'

Sounds more than adequate to me

*av

I didnt say it was i was merely pointing out that you couldnt plug in an XLR or one of those big jack's which come with the more professional microphones you would need a convertor as it only has a mini jack port.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Typically you're looking at an unbalanced line in.. up to you if you want to add an external interface to plug in an XLR-based mic (if you have one)

 

[clv101]

Okay - so it is feasible to get a decent mic and use a MacBook as a fancy voice recorder. Cheers.