[Macpartners] headset use on a G4 powerbook

[Kerem B Limon]

Quoting Douglas Alan <nessus at MIT.EDU>:

> Kerem B Limon <k_limon at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > I very well might have, audio-wise, but I believe my general,
> non-audiophile
> > description is correct (though I'd suspect it is Apple, too, that might be
> > confused here).
> 
> I'd be surprised if Apple has their terminology backwards, though I
> suppose anything is possible.  This terminology has nothing to with
> audiophile vs non-audiophile -- it has to do with getting things to work
> at all without either terribly low volumes or unbearable overdriving
> distortion.
> 
> If the Powerbook provides only one audio input, it will almost certainly
> be a line-level input, in which case you would have to plug an amplified
> line-level microphone into that input.  If they provide both a
> line-level input and a microphone input, you could either plug a
> line-level microphone into the line-level input, or a more typical
> microphone-level microphone into the microphone input.
> 

Hmmm...well then unless this particular G4 or newer G4s have changed something
(and that you have a newer, different desktop G4), there is some confusion
going on. All G3 PowerBooks, all G3 desktop Power Macs, and most all Power Mac
G4 desktops I have accept standard, unpowered microphones. I've *never* had to
use a powered mike with any Mac.

> The manual for my desktop G4 Mac has only a single line-level input, and
> it specifically states that a microphone that is pluged into it must be
> self-powered.
> 

And all of my G4s accept unpowered mikes, which all work well. What gives?

> |>oug
> 

-Kerem

Kerem B. Limon
kerem.limon at mit.edu /e-mail