In this article you will find the steps that you have to follow in order to use an external microphone with your MacBook Pro notebook. First of all, you have to know about these gadgets that were created by Apple Company who adds to these computers the world’s most advanced operating system whose name is Mac OS X. Thanks to this feature you can use your laptop for many reasons starting with running the most recent and the highest quality programs and games that you can download directly from Apple’s official website where you will also find a detailed description about MacBook Pros.
Another important fact which makes these computers so spread among people is that contains a lithium ion battery which has a long lasting life. Don’t forget that you can contribute to your laptop’s battery life if you turn off the Wi-Fi signals searching process and the Airport, too. This step it is very important especially when you don’t use the Internet. In order to organize an unforgettable karaoke evening with your friends or relatives you have the possibility to attach to your MacBook Pro a microphone.
For this process you have to follow some basic steps. You have to know that beside external microphone your computer also contains a built in microphone. The easiest method to attach an external accessory to your MacBook Pro is by inserting the audio’s cable into the jack which is located on your MacBook Pro notebook’s left side. You will recognize it easily because it looks like a circle with two triangles. In case that this process it is not working you have to buy an analog to digit converter or a USB microphone. The difference between these devices is that you have to connect the converter to the old microphone and the USB microphone is another type of accessory. These gadget’s prices differs between 50$ and 150$. After you have attached one of these gadgets to your notebook you have to press the “Power On” button which you will find at your MacBook Pro notebook’s left hand side.
The system will automatically recognize the connected devices and soon appears in the “System Preferences” menu both of them. Then you have to click with the mouse cursor on “Sound” option and you have to select from the appeared menu the “Input” icon. It depends which device you have purchased in case that you have connected an USB microphone you have to click on the icon with the same title and if you use a converter you have to select the converter’s name. Finally you have to click on “OK” button. Then you have to open the software program which makes possible to record your voice. The next step is to click on “Preferences” menu and choose the “Audio Preferences” option. In order to start the recording process after you have selected the microphone type you have to click with the mouse on “OK” button and now you can start recording.