External microphone not recognized

my external USB Samson C01U microphone worked fine under OS 10.6.4 and prior. Now, since upgrading to OS 10.6.5, when plugged in it is not recognized in sound input. Any ideas?

OK, that's not a sustainable solution... but luckily this is:-
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12566760&#12569870
Follow down, and there's a link to an Uninstaller for the Samson SoftPre, and that solves it.
David

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I can record audio with any app through the builtin mic. And I know the system 'hears' sound through the builtin mic when I go to SystemPreferences->Sound->Input.
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Hi,
I have an external microphone, which I hook up to Garage Band to record voice, etc... The microphone seems to be recognized in System Preferences, under audio, but Garage Band is not picking up the mic.
Any thoughts?
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~Christoph

As already hinted by one of the respondent, your inquiry needs clarification ... "which I hook-up to to GarageBand" ? "How" is the question !
Secondly, I don't know of a Mac computer which has an analogue microphone input. If you use a USB microphone, you would of course use a USB port to plug it in.
Thirdly, if you are connecting your mic to the line-in port of whatever you have, as the term says ... it is a line-in input which means that you will have to boost the weak signal generated by your microphone with a pre-amplifier to bring it to the level matching that of your line-in input.
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