Griffin iMic 2 - Sound card - stereo - USB
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Use your USB port to add stereo audio input and output to your Mac or PC. iMic isolates the audio signal from the noisy electronics of your computer to give you higher quality sound. Perfect for transferring your vinyl to digital. A must for any audio enthusiast.
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- Griffin iMic USB Audio Interface 9066-IMIC2- Griffin Technology
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By Peter Good (Thousand Oaks, CA USA)
This is a good and simple product to hook up and get started with digitising your records. Also very good is Finyl Vinyl although I have had some "bumps" along the way but their staff is very easy to get a-hold-of and they are situated in the USA and are very helpful without being imtimidating.
By Russell M. Brady (Haverhill, NH., USA)
I purchased the iMic for use with both Mac and pc laptops. After owning a Toshiba Satellite laptop for over a year and a half, I discovered that it only has a MONO mic input. You would think they could have spent the extra 10 cents to equip a $600 laptop with a stereo input jack! Note to laptop manufacturers: MORE AUDIO INPUTS!!! and make at least one of them stereo! Enter the iMic--the lowest-priced device I could find to get two channels of audio into my laptop. It is a bit flimsy, but with a little TLC, I expect it will last a while. Very simple: It has one sample rate (44khz), so no messing around with multiple settings. The 44khz sample rate is often referred to as "cd quality"--good enough for me! It comes with Audacity--a very versatile freeware program for digitizing, editing and cleaning audio. My laptop downloaded the driver for the iMic immediately on connection--plug and play! There was a little bit of messing around with the sound settings in "control panel"; you can make the iMic the "default" audio input or just choose it from the list whenever you use it. Set-up is even easier on a Mac. Oddly enough, my Mac laptop is older than the Toshiba and it features a stereo audio in jack! The iMic has a little slider switch for choosing "line" or "mic" level. I use it with an analog mixer board, so have used only the "line" setting. It also come with a short stereo mini-plug to RCA phono jack adapter which even features a "ground" screw for use with direct connection to a turntable--another feature I haven't tried. The iMic is a very useful product to interface almost any audio to a usb input at a very reasonable price.
By C. Pierce (Dallas, TX)
For basic "just get the audio into the computer" needs, the iMic is a great little device. Coupled with Final Vinyl, and getting my old record collection digitized is a snap.
By Mark S. Lemerise (USA)
I was using the Griffin iMic to capture audio from a PS2 and at first had a really hard time filtering out the static and feedback from the line (the TV was also a bit old). However, after switching to a newer TV and fully securing the input line from the RCA jacks into the central hub, there was absolutely NO feedback and I got CD-quality capture. This is a very useful tool and I would recommend it to anyone for non-professional audio capture. (Just make sure everything is FULLY plugged in or you'll get terrible feedback on the line).
By James S. Stewart (San Francisco, CA)
Does what it says it does: allows you to input tapes and lps to your mac.
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