Mini Disc To G5; Di To G5 Options

[mpnow]

Two related questions;

1) I have sketches of rough songs I recorded with the aid of a tiny little stereo microphone on a sony minidisc player. I would like to put them onto the hard drive of my G5. How do I do this?

2) I have been trying to start recording these sketches straight onto the mac (into Garageband) using exactly the same little microphone that I used to record onto the sony mini disc, but without any success. I do not understand why not.

I have checked that
(a) the mike still works by using it on the mini disk player again five minutes ago;
(b) in my 'system preferences' I have made sure that the 'input' is on 'audio line-in', that the volume control is up as high as it will go (though it seems to refuse to stay there and become the default volume setting);
© that the tiny little jack of the mike is plugged into the audio input jack on the back of the G5; and
(d) in Garageband, the new track is a 'real instrument' (voice).

Do not see what else I can do (I have not yet tried plugging the mike into the headphones socket on the front as I do not want to damage anything). Anyone any suggestions that will do the trick with the tools I have before me?

[citypigeon]

hi,

i agree with the recording to minidisc then recording to the mac via line level.... if you're happy with the sound on the minidisc and not bothered about the extrfa time it will take to transfer to the mac. you could actually use the minidisc as a pre-amp and put the mic into it, have it on record-standby and get a line out into the mac and record in one go.

You want to be recording straight into the mac if you're multi-tracking audio

.....an mbox is really good for this kind of thing because its got powered mic preamps on it for running condenser mics (which are usually much better for recording anything but drums and percussion) you also get protools...... its worth it


i don't think there's much point getting a mixer unless you're recording more than one signal at a time (two mics or more)