Sludgedragon
Well-known member
I posted this question on the Apple forums and have been soundly ignored. Obviously I should have tried here first.
I wanted to use Coaster or something like that to record into my Lombard on 9.2. I got a cable that goes from one source (headphone jack) to another (microphone jack). I tried plugging in my iPod and also my iMac G5 to test the setup and it sort of worked. But it only came in on the left side and played on the left side. I checked, and the stereo sound playback of music on the Lombard works fine in iTunes so I know the stereo on the Lombard is working, but I tried four different freeware and shareware programs and got left-sided sound. The programs with an indicator show only the left side inputting, and playback is also only the left speaker. I did in the past record off a "real" stereo with Coaster by hooking a y-cable to the speaker ports and the other end into the mike port of an iMac 600, but the stereo is dead and I no longer have that iMac.
When I get it going right I will be recording off tapes by connecting to a boom box with a tape player, to preserve what's on them. Does anybody have a suggestion? Is it the cable's fault? Is it a funky mike port? Would it maybe be useful to try something in Jaguar?
I wanted to use Coaster or something like that to record into my Lombard on 9.2. I got a cable that goes from one source (headphone jack) to another (microphone jack). I tried plugging in my iPod and also my iMac G5 to test the setup and it sort of worked. But it only came in on the left side and played on the left side. I checked, and the stereo sound playback of music on the Lombard works fine in iTunes so I know the stereo on the Lombard is working, but I tried four different freeware and shareware programs and got left-sided sound. The programs with an indicator show only the left side inputting, and playback is also only the left speaker. I did in the past record off a "real" stereo with Coaster by hooking a y-cable to the speaker ports and the other end into the mike port of an iMac 600, but the stereo is dead and I no longer have that iMac.
When I get it going right I will be recording off tapes by connecting to a boom box with a tape player, to preserve what's on them. Does anybody have a suggestion? Is it the cable's fault? Is it a funky mike port? Would it maybe be useful to try something in Jaguar?