[Johnbmx26]

Hey,
Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm having a hard time trying to mute the internal mic on my ibook. I go to sounds, and under input, theres the volume bar and I put it all the way down. But when I tap my mousepad or something, you see the volume meter go up?


Edit:
I just looked on the apple website, and searched about this, and I see it's impossible to mute this?
The reason I need to mute it is because I'm recording drums through garageband. I have a mixer.. but I see theres no mic input? Do I have to buy an imic for this?

I have bose speakers and the volume controller that connects for into the speaker input of the ibook has a mic input. Would this work?

John

[Johnbmx26]

anyone?

[enk0d]

Well this is my two cents on the issue you are having if you were able to get another input deivce (i.e microphone or a headset with a built in mic) there should be a option on the higher end models like those from logitech that has a boom mic control attached to it so you can mute it.

Anyone else has a solution to his problem?

[Johnbmx26]

I tried this, but I'm still unable to mute the internal mic.

John

[ccsccs7]

If you had another device for sound input, you could switch to that. I'm not sure of your setup. Are you recording anything with the internal mic that you shouldn't be?

[colinlewis]

Sounds like the original poster wants to record with something other than the built-in iBook mic.

The iBooks do not have a line in jack. The mic in on your Bose speakers will not feed sound back into the iBook, just out of the speakers.

You need an iMic or other audio input device.

The software you use to record will probably allow you to select between the internal mic and the audio interface, so you won't get noice from the built-in mic.

-Colin