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2 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 digitize old phono records, 2007-08-23
If you want ot burn old phono records to cdrom/dvd, this is an inexpensive method to easliy do it.
3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Converting analog to digital using iMic, 2007-08-16
I ordered the iMic in order to digitize analog tapes and LP's on my Macintosh Computer. So far I have only transfered seven lps.
Set-up of iMic is pretty straight forward: Plug in the two audio (white/red) lines to the "VCR outport" of your receiver, the other end in the USB of your computer.
One complaint was even though iMic comes with directions on the wiring set-up, it isn't clear on what port to use on the receiver. They mention Auxiliary port, but I don't have one, so I had to search the internet and in one of the forums I found the VCR port mentioned.
To continue set-up: Open up the sound window in system preferences and the iMic should be in the list. Click on this and close the window.
iMic offers a free software called Final Vinyl. I tried using this but it quit on me several times. Through my previous research I found a better free software for called Audacity, this worked fine and is better quality.
Open up the software start the LP and check the sound levels. The level should be adjusted so nothing peaks over "0". Restart the lp and click on record.
Audacity allows you to record a whole side of an LP and divide it up after it has been recorded. I exported the digital recording in .aiff form to iTunes. I didn't try and tweak anything in the sound files, but Audacity has many editing features.
However in iTunes there was a problem that I couldn't quickly resolve. After burning the material on a cd it wouldn't play on my cd player. I tried converting to other sound files (wav, mp3) with no change. I happen to own Roxio Toast Titanium and had no problem dragging the aiff files from itunes into Toast and burning the cd's there. They work and the quality is great.
So far iMic has worked fine and aside from the lame directions for set-up the device pretty much sets up itself once it is plugged in.
external soundcard works well, 2007-06-21
I had higher expectations for the device honestly but I realized that I was asking too much of it after I bought it. So i guess that's really a bad move on my part and I can't blame the tool. However I realized that it does record things at a high quality, it's just the pre-amp in my guitar sucks. People need to understand that this is a tool that needs to be used with other tools. I feel it records voice audio pretty impressively. I stuck a pair of headphones into the line in jack and it recorded my voice pretty well. Obviously i'll wanna get a real mic eventually. It requires you use good equipment with it. I have some crappy cables and a crappy electro-acoustic and I am pretty sure that has a lot to do with why I am not getting the exact sound I want out of it. The product does what it says just don't expect it to win you a grammy. You'll need this gadget and many others like it to accomplish that.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED!, 2007-05-06
Was searching for some way to get all my classic vinyl on to my computer after reading an ad in an inflight magazine. The players they were advertising were around $400+ but after my local newspaper had a review on this lil beauty, I thought I'd try it for a TENTH of the price (that includes the grounding cable that you also need to buy). It works great! Highly recommended and the FREE software from Audacity completes everything. Now you can make your records into mp3 with extreme ease -- though havent yet figured out how to remove the pops and crackles from the records yet. Now I can finally play all my old stuff and transfer it to my mp3 player or even make cd's from it. How cool!
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Excellent hardware, 2007-04-07
Griffin Technology iMic USB External Sound Card
I used the iMic to successfully record my LPs as MP3s. Its a good device and beats having to install an internal card, but instructions are minimal so I had to contact tech support to get the proper settings. It comes with Final Vinyl, the software needed to conver the audio to a digital format; it has no scratch filters, however. The filter mode is really an equalizer.
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