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<blockquote data-quote="festus12macfms" data-source="post: 1409696" data-attributes="member: 252586"><p><span style="color: blue">I'm new to this coupled with being a senior citizen (70) so need all the tutoring I can get! if it wasn't for beginners, there would not be advanced techies! Can you tell me why when I plug in an external Mic into my Mac G4, there is no voice (audio) but it does have from a webcam? I've tried 3 different mic's (they all work on my Windows based computers plus I have 2 Mac's: G4 Sawtooth; G4 MDD and mic doesn't work on either when chatting on Skype, Yahoo Messenger, etc. When I open the "Sound" from System Preferences, click "input" it shows 1) Line In, Audio line-in port, & 2) Venus USB 2.0 Camera (Audio). In the display "Input Level, it shows audio in the web-cam mode, but not for the Audio Line-in port (mic-jack, rear panel). I've disconnected web-cam, same results except no audio at all. The audio output work okay and plays music, news, etc. Would the problem be Mac requires a a special Microphone?? Will wait advice. I have a G5 on the way and hope it doesn't have the same problem! Thank you; Edwin Thoma, Sr. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="festus12macfms, post: 1409696, member: 252586"] [COLOR="blue"]I'm new to this coupled with being a senior citizen (70) so need all the tutoring I can get! if it wasn't for beginners, there would not be advanced techies! Can you tell me why when I plug in an external Mic into my Mac G4, there is no voice (audio) but it does have from a webcam? I've tried 3 different mic's (they all work on my Windows based computers plus I have 2 Mac's: G4 Sawtooth; G4 MDD and mic doesn't work on either when chatting on Skype, Yahoo Messenger, etc. When I open the "Sound" from System Preferences, click "input" it shows 1) Line In, Audio line-in port, & 2) Venus USB 2.0 Camera (Audio). In the display "Input Level, it shows audio in the web-cam mode, but not for the Audio Line-in port (mic-jack, rear panel). I've disconnected web-cam, same results except no audio at all. The audio output work okay and plays music, news, etc. Would the problem be Mac requires a a special Microphone?? Will wait advice. I have a G5 on the way and hope it doesn't have the same problem! Thank you; Edwin Thoma, Sr. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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