Griffin Imic Good Option? Options

[wilfred]

You might laugh at me but I'll just ask it :-):
I've got an iBook that I use very intensively and I wonder what is the best way to record my band sessions onto it. My dad bought me an iMic for my birthday one month ago which I haven't used for recording yet but just for the fact that it output's audio better than the onboard-audiocard in the iBook and it's only about 35 euro's. Appart from this I play with my band every week and we record the songs everytime on tape. This process however is quite timeconsuming because then it has to be transported to the computer to make mp3's of it (which is basically the idea so the entire band can have the songs at home). As the iMic has an input option I wondered if it would be sufficient to provide some reasonable input quality. All the sound in the studio is captured by two mic's which I could convert into one minijack and then into the iMic. To make a long story short: Is the iMic capable of recording that with reasonable quality?

Sorry for the long post.

Regards,
Wilfred Boelhouwer

[calden]

Wilfred:

I have an iBook dual USB 500 mhz. I bought an iMic to record into it, and couldn't get it to record without adding some clicks every 10 seconds or so. I emailed Griffin and they said that on the iBook I would need to upgrade to OS 9.2.2 (I was using 9.1). I upgraded but continued to have the problem. It apparently is something to do with the iBook's manner of writing to the disk. It's frustrating when the iMic advertising claims success.

Your iBook may be a newer version (mine bought two years ago.) I'd check Griffin's website - I think it was their troubleshooting section - to see if there are any potential compatibility problems.

If so there are other devices out there that are basically the same thing - audio to USB - that might work better.

Carlos