Garageband is recording my voice a semitone lower than I am singing, what am I doing wrong?

Hi when I try to record my voice on garageband it makes it a semitone lower, I've not go any pitch enhacing options turned on, I can't figure out why its doing it - does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for helping!

jumpingjacks wrote:
using the inbuilt mike
open the Audio MIDI Setup utility in your Utilities folder and make sure the internal mic is set to a sample rate of 44100

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