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- Macbook Pro 2.53 Core 2 Duo : 4GB
I had one of those little black 13" Macbook's. I was very surprised and very pleased with the quality of the microphone in that laptop. I would use iMovie to capture myself playing acoustic guitar. The original sounded wonderful, but then I'd use Share -> GarageBand to apply the Live Performance filter and I got excellent sounding audio in my video clips. Then the Macbook had to go and die on me.
So, I bought a brand new Macbook Pro thinking everything will be the same except faster hardware and a bigger display. Well of course then I find out iLive was updated and iMovie now kinda sucks (doesn't even give me the option to share with garage band anymore and all of the good editing features are gone...are they trying to get me to buy Final Cut???). I was able to download the iMove HD 06 from Apple's web site, though, so I at least have what I'm comfortable with there.
The problem is the mic quality is horrible! The vocals aren't all that bad, however, the acoustic guitar sounds really bad. It sounds like the guitar's plugged into an amp but the battery in the guitar is almost dead. You strum a chord and it might sound half way ok for just a second and then goes into this nasty electronic sounding fade in and out. Nothing at all like the crystal clear recording I got from my old Macbook. Very upsetting. Anybody have any idea or can you confirm that the mic in the new Macbook's is lesser quality than the old ones?
I've got a Labtec Stereo Mic that I was using on my desktop and I plugged it into the input on the Macbook but I can't get anything to work with it. I select Input (instead of Built-In Microphone) from the audio settings in iMovie, GarageBand, and Adobe Soundbooth but it won't pick up any sound from the mic. The mic works great on the desktop (windows).
On another note, my bluetooth isn't functioning like the old one would for me. I've got a cell phone that I can tether to my laptop and share the internet. On my old Macbook (and on this Dell I have here) I can simply connect the phone to the laptop via bluetooth, fire up the internet sharing on the phone and then select connect to network from the device options on the computer and I was up and running. Worked beautifully every time (and still does on the Dell).
With this new Macbook when I try and pair the phone FROM the Macbook it will not work. It finds the phone, the phone then asks me if I want to pair and the Macbook displays a pass code for me to type into the phone as usual. I do so but then the phone tells me the pass code was incorrect (I tried this very carefully about 10 times) but the Macbook tells me it was successfully paired. The phone, though, doesn't display the Macbook in its device list because it failed so it won't work. So, I remove the device from the Macbook and try again.
When I do it FROM the phone it works a little better. The phone finds the Macbook, then I set my own pass code which I then type into the Macbook and both the phone and Macbook then say successful and each display the other in the bluetooth devices list. However, I cannot get the Macbook to connect to the phone. It just sits there with a red light icon showing it's not connected. When I select connect to network, nothing happens. No error messages, nothing. The bluebooth menu goes away but then it's just like I didn't even do anything.
Any information, feedback, thoughts on any of the above would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
So, I bought a brand new Macbook Pro thinking everything will be the same except faster hardware and a bigger display. Well of course then I find out iLive was updated and iMovie now kinda sucks (doesn't even give me the option to share with garage band anymore and all of the good editing features are gone...are they trying to get me to buy Final Cut???). I was able to download the iMove HD 06 from Apple's web site, though, so I at least have what I'm comfortable with there.
The problem is the mic quality is horrible! The vocals aren't all that bad, however, the acoustic guitar sounds really bad. It sounds like the guitar's plugged into an amp but the battery in the guitar is almost dead. You strum a chord and it might sound half way ok for just a second and then goes into this nasty electronic sounding fade in and out. Nothing at all like the crystal clear recording I got from my old Macbook. Very upsetting. Anybody have any idea or can you confirm that the mic in the new Macbook's is lesser quality than the old ones?
I've got a Labtec Stereo Mic that I was using on my desktop and I plugged it into the input on the Macbook but I can't get anything to work with it. I select Input (instead of Built-In Microphone) from the audio settings in iMovie, GarageBand, and Adobe Soundbooth but it won't pick up any sound from the mic. The mic works great on the desktop (windows).
On another note, my bluetooth isn't functioning like the old one would for me. I've got a cell phone that I can tether to my laptop and share the internet. On my old Macbook (and on this Dell I have here) I can simply connect the phone to the laptop via bluetooth, fire up the internet sharing on the phone and then select connect to network from the device options on the computer and I was up and running. Worked beautifully every time (and still does on the Dell).
With this new Macbook when I try and pair the phone FROM the Macbook it will not work. It finds the phone, the phone then asks me if I want to pair and the Macbook displays a pass code for me to type into the phone as usual. I do so but then the phone tells me the pass code was incorrect (I tried this very carefully about 10 times) but the Macbook tells me it was successfully paired. The phone, though, doesn't display the Macbook in its device list because it failed so it won't work. So, I remove the device from the Macbook and try again.
When I do it FROM the phone it works a little better. The phone finds the Macbook, then I set my own pass code which I then type into the Macbook and both the phone and Macbook then say successful and each display the other in the bluetooth devices list. However, I cannot get the Macbook to connect to the phone. It just sits there with a red light icon showing it's not connected. When I select connect to network, nothing happens. No error messages, nothing. The bluebooth menu goes away but then it's just like I didn't even do anything.
Any information, feedback, thoughts on any of the above would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!