Humming & Ticking sound recording via DJ Equipment?

I am new to garageband, I followed the tutorials and have tried recording and I am experiencing a nasty distortion of humming and ticking sound. I am using a regular RCA to mini mic cord input, it's a brand new cord.. I can hear the music but not without all this distortion.. Is there something I am not doing or missing? Please advise me with any helpful info... Thanks.

Are you sure you are recording through the line-in jack and not through the internal microphone? Have you set the input in GB's preferences?

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#1 I assume you must set Sound recording to 'Line input' and NOT manual, but if I set the Rec level, whenever the camera is powered off, either automatically or manually, this Rec level is ALWAYS reset to zero. Also, the moment recording is startted, even though audio input levels are set correctly, no audio is recorded. This seems like a firmware bug to me. This does NOT happen when set to manual. Anyone know of a workaround?
When using Manual and plugging in an external audio source I assume this signal will override the audio from the camera's internal mic.
If this is correct and there are no issues when using 'Manual', then what is the difference between 'Manual' and "Line input'??
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No. Apparently a buggy firmware release. My understanding is that there is another release planned soon. Hopefully with several new (and working) features in addition to the line input.
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Hmm, that is interesting that he usb ports are different - are you saying they have different power outputs?
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My internal microphone is not picking up sound after I upgraded my SoundMAX driver (available from the Lenovo website here) to version 5.10.1.571.* It looks like this was a problem before and was supposedly fixed in 5.10.1.5520 which is included in the version I have.
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Hello,
Here versions of the Audio Features for Windows XP driver that I was able to find:
5.10.1.5410 - download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/7ka112ww.exe
5.10.1.5520 - download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/7ka114ww.exe
5.10.1.5670 - download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/7ka113ww.exe
5.10.1.5710 - download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/7ka116ww.exe
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Actually the reason to use Quantum SCSI tape recorder is to back-up big amount of data (propriety movies footage) both on PC (what is quite easy, using SCSII host adapter with VHDCI 68 connector) and iMac what seems to be not easy. All my search by Google leads to that conclussion, they finished production of SCSI-to-USB or FireWire because somebody stopped to produce chips to covert protocols. So even buying noe second-hand adapter, no guaranty it's still working with Lion (nobody is developing drivers anymore). Strange is, nobody or just a few are using SCSII (Ultra 320) devices (while the transfer is not bad, 320 MBps what is 2560 Mbps, so the only limitation is tape recording (some 80 MBps) not an interface. Using compression mode I can (and I do) record 1,6 TB of footage data. However quite slow, is safe and cheap, comparing with any HD storage solution. USB 2 is much more limited.
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"Ticking" sound in DVD playback of Final Cut Express 2.0.3 movie. HELP pls

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Making a sound recorded inside sound like it is heard from outside

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Hey Folks.
Here's how's it all started: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8353054#8353054 I turned on my computer 3 weeks ago and saw a folder with a ? mark.
So I took it in the Apple store and the HD got replaced, now the data on the old hard disk is with the tech guys trying to retreieve the data off of it. But when I spoke to him yesterday he told me there is a slim chance to retrieve the data <edited by host>.
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To make my story even worse, when I backed up all my images on my external hard drive, I was flying back from Canada to Dubai, and I had my luggage stolen with my hard disk and 2 blackberry bolds, so Im really out of luck
PLZ HELP!
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