New to iMac - internal mic and FireBox

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New to iMac - internal mic and FireBox

I'm new to my iMac and Logic Studio (about one week new). I bought a FireBox and hooked it up (having other problems I won't go into here). Whenever I start at Audio track in L8, the darn iMac internal mic (the one you use for ichat) is on and bleeds/feedbacks. When I went into Utilities/Audio-MIDI setup and muted the internal mic, it killed my monitors (fed through the firebox), which seemed really odd to me. So how do you turn that darn internal mic off without FUBARing the other audio out?

Sorry to be a newb, but I'll get the hand of this new system one day.

iMac 2.8, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Dec 6, 2007 8:29 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 7, 2007 1:05 AM in response to Facie

When you say muted - did you turn the slider to 0 or did you tick the mute button. The tick box is a kill button for audio out.

Select the internal mike and then reduce the "input level" slider to the far left.

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Dec 7, 2007 3:53 AM in response to Facie

In Logic, Go to Preferences>Audio>
Now select "presonus firebox" as your device.

You shouldn't need to mute the internal imac mic at all. Just to check...

Go to System Pref's (OS X) > Sound and select the presonus firebox as your output and input.

Cheers

Rounik

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Dec 7, 2007 7:24 AM in response to Facie

That's it. I was selecting "mute" which disabled all audio. Then I double checked the master pref to make sure the Presonus was selected as the audio output and input device. It was only half selected (i.e., out, but not in). When I selected Presonus for both, the instrument feed tracks no longer activate the ichat mic. Thanks for the help. This forum is amazing. People are really helpful.

Facie

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