Re: [microsound] iMic

[ndk <ndkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I have an imic (http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/) that I use
> > with my 12" powerbook and it works great live. I even saw kid606 using one on
> > wednesday. it's not really pro quality but it sounds good and isn't noisey.
> > and christ it's only $40!
> this is the BEST $35.00 I have ever spent on laptop audio...and I swore I
> would never use USB audio...the only thing that makes it consumer are the
> output jacks which are stereo mini-jax in/out and the level output - which I
> assume is -10dB...
> the iMic is small, rugged, able to be tossed into a backpack without feeling
> any extra weight and ALWAYS works (on a MacOS)...I bought an iMic to test
> out when I switched over to an iBook (no PC slot) for on the road use and
> they are the ultimate audio i/o for touring (backpacking) musicians...

> Hmm, all these cheers for the iMic.  
> 
> I've had nothing but DC offset problems with mine, mystery 
> clicks, distortion...

One of my collaborators as I recall had one and had the first 400Mhz
Titanium and was running 0S9.1 or 2 as this was a while back and
definitely was getting enough click artifacts to render it unusable. He
was pretty sure there was a connection with writing to the harddrive.
After tech support couldn't solve it he returned it for his money back.
Might very well be a design flaw in earlier units, something led him to
believe it was not defective. I think he now has a cheap different brand
USB interface with pretty bad latency

nick kent

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