Firebox/mic/garage Band Set Up, Cannot record from mic Options

[brianjones]

Hi

I have an iMac G%, Garage Band, Presonus Firebox and a Microphone and am setting it up for the first time, but after doing it I cannot get the mic to record in Garage Band.

I am new to all of this, but I changed the audio in system preferences to Firebox and changed it in Garage Band as well, but I cannot get any sound coming from the mic, which is brand new as well.

I am going to have the mic checked, but am wondering if I have missed something basic. The Firebox came with Cubase LE which would have showed me how to test the system, but unfortunately Cubase would not install because of some error, so I couldn't check it that way.

The iMac recognized Firebox and the lights go to blue correctly, although if I push the button on the front of Firebox, the blue light disappears and I have to unplug the firewire and plug it in again to get the blue light on again.

Any suggestions as to what I should check in Firebox or Garage Band that I may be missing.

In the Firebox manual it states to right click on the Control Panel icon to change some settings, but right clicking does nothing. Is that for PC?

Thanks

Brian

[mazza_lives]

Out of interest what version of Cubase LE did they give you. If youre using Cubase LE 1.07 and you have Tiger 10.4 it wont work you have to email them and they should send you version 1.08. However, I have 1.08 and it doesnt work with my version of Tiger.

For your question I might recommend you going into Audio Midi Setup (Applications>Utiities>) and just check it out there see if everythng is checked. Are you sure you have confgiured your output channel? In other words you might be getting a signal in but if you have your output set to the Presonus and you have no speakers, well you wont hear anything. The other thing is have you checked that when you create a new track it is a Real instrument track and a vocal track? Oh and make sure if your mic is 48V phantom power and check your mic input levels.

Let me know how your Firebox goes. I have an Inspire and using it with a G5 iMac and having few problems with it draining my CPU. Apparently Tiger and firewire dirvers dont go well together at the moment.