MacBook Pro and external microphone

I have a ghost powered condenser mic running through an iRig into Garage Band. It works great for what I need. I would imagine you have solved your problem by now but maybe someone else could use this information.

You may want to check out the Griffen iMic for USB interface, probably the easiest way to do what you want to do, not very expensive. I know of no adapter that will allow you to interface your sennheiser to the analog port.

You may want to price shop, this is for an example for you.

http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Technology-iMic-Audio-Device/dp/B000BVV2IC/ref=sr_ 1_1/182-0735174-4965516?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1400272657&sr=1-1&keywords=gri ffin+imic+usb+adapter

Hope this helps

keep it simple , ok

Pro mics to your Macbook are USB connection.

either thru a mixer or a genuine PRO mic with a USB connection.

the best cheap USB genuine (not computer junk mics) is an Audio Technica AT2020 USB.

I saw someone mentioned iMic.

I just got a Macbook Pro retina 13" and the iMic is not detected. I contacted Griffin support but no word yet.

I'm very disappointed right now. I was expecting to just be able to record my guitar into garage band with the audio-in like on my old macbook. No dice. Blows.

Check out this guy on splitters. He seems to know what he is talking about and he offers a store that has several different types of splitters for both battery powered mics and ones that aren't battery powered. I'm assuming since the iPad and iPhone and Mac all have the same input it should apply.

http://video-alchemy.com/240/audio/iphone-ipad-external-microphone-adapters/

Here is the store I found he recommended that had the different types of splitters:

http://www.kvconnection.com/category-s/8682.htm

I have mid 2012 15" mbp retina. I ordered an Audio Technica atr3350is lavalier mic. it comes with a splitter for mic and headphones. it works alright. so I believe you need a powered mic for the 3.5mm input on the macbook pro. otherwise there are some great USB mics out there too.

I'm using a Lav mic, produces a line input, with a splitter (I verified the connections on the splitter), and no go. my macbook pro does not recognize the external mic. I've also tried an SM58 thru a transformer (produces a "mic" level input), also no go, not recognized.

I've got a USB mic and it USUALLY works OK. just two problems. one is the latency, which makes multiple track recordings problematic, since the latency varies. and two, sometimes, for reasons as yet unknown, the recoding is full of static, which seems to be caused by dropped data. Note that my mic is a stereo mic, so maybe that's just too much data, too fast for the mac.

anyway, I'm getting pretty frustrated.

any ideas on how to get an external, analog mic to be recognized.

running 10.9.5 on a 13" mid 2012 macbook pro.

I've just purchased the Audio-Technica ATR-3350iS Lavilier Omnidirectional Condenser Microphone.

And yes, it didn't initially work with my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).

HOWEVER... I found a way to get it to work, using an Apple EarBuds with Mic, along with the splitter.

I've uploaded a video and description about it. Hope you can have similar luck!

sorry I just got around to seeing your post. I had just about given up trying to get the external analog mic to work on my macbook. Your video is fascinating!!! I would call the mac's behavior a bug and your solution a very interesting work around. you must have spent quite a bit of time trying things.

In the next few days I'll get an iPhone headset and try it.

thanks!

follow up on the splitter method. I finally got an iphone headset today so I could try what was suggested by hypotechguy.

As he did in the video (see his post for the link) I plugged the iphone headset into the mic/phones jack while I had the sound settings window up. Sure enough, after a few seconds it switched to "external mic" and the mic on the headset was working -- i.e. I could talk into it and record the sound.

Then I plugged in my splitter to the mic/phones jack and plugged the headset into the earphones jack of the splitter. In hypotechguy's video, the external mic was recognized and one could plug record using the mic jack of the splitter. But in my case, no luck. I plugged the iphone headset into both the mic and the headphones jack of the splitter and the sound setup window did not change to external mic.

I read in some other thread that splitters are not all wired the same way. I forget what brand of splitter I have, but it is definitely not an Apple product. I am convinced that the problem is that my splitter is somehow wired differently than hypotechguy's splitter.

The real problem though, in my opinion anyway, is that Apple screwed up. True, the spec says that an iphone headset will work as an external mic and that does indeed work, so they are OK by the "letter of the law", as it were. BUT it would have been really easy for them to make this simple. Plus, they didn't even document how it works (I would be happy to eat those words if someone posts a spec explaining how to use an external mic with my macbook that actually tells you how to get the external mic recognized). I am an Apple user because I do a lot of music work on my computer, and to find out that connecting an external mic to my macbook pro is a big pain in the neck was a nasty surprise. I think Apple is more interested in the big bucks they make off mobile devices and have pretty much forgotten about us laptop and desktop users.

Sorry for the rant, back to work. I'm gonna forget this problem and use my macbook 1.1, running 10.6, which has a separate mic and earphones plug and is easy to use for recording.

It might be situated next to the earphone socket on the left side. There are 2 small holes and it could be the one furthest from the socket.

You can always use a USB audio device like a "Behringer UCA202" or a "Turtle beach Amigo II" and then plug your "Sennheiser Freeport wireless microphone"

into the adapter.

In trying to solve the same problem I decided to test the microphone to USB adaptor that came with the kids SingStar game on the PS/3. Guess what - works like a charm. The two microphones come in as two different channels (L/R). I've also tried it with an external shotgun microphone which worked just as well. These should be available fairly cheaply.

actually it does work. I saw a utube video but you have to do it this way. Connect the splitter into the macpro audio socket. connect (don't worry you won't be using this microphone) one of the mac earphones with microphone. now the macbook pro recognizes the connection and swtiches to microphone on for that connection. Then connect your microphone into the microphone input of the splitter. Apparently it has to be done in that order and then it works.