Internal Mic Problems

I am sort of new to garage band. I recently got a macbook pro and was wanting to record some acoustic guitar through the internal mic. When I try to do so I encounter massive bad feedback from my mic and speakers. What am I doing wrong to make it inable to record music from the internal macbook mic?

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I have a MacBook Pro, mid-2010 model, Snow Leopard, OS 10.6.8, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB memory 1067 MHz DDR3.
My problem is with my internal microphone. I Skype once a week with my daughter and until 2 weeks ago, the internal micrtophone worked fine. I had an issue with the MagSafe connection, which was repaired by the folks at the Apple Store. After the repair, my internal microphone no longer worked with Skype. I discovered today I can use an external microphone to create sound for Skype and for Sound Studio, but when I choose Built-In Input, I get no sound for either program.
I would rather not drag an external microphone around every time I want to use either program.
Suggestions for a fix?
Thank you.

external microphone has to boosted up to "LINE" levels, so it requires an amplifier.
My bet is on they disconnected the wire when they made the prevoius repair. If that is the case, they can fix it "in the back" (static-free workstation) behind the genius bar.

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A few days ago I was trying to use my macspeech dictate software on my new macbook pro for the first time, I had to plug in the mic it came with and it would not work. Now my internal mic will not work at all in any other programs. I made sure it was selected under system preferences but for some reason it does not pick up on any sounds. I have my computer all up to date with version 10.6.8. Does anyone know what the problem might be?
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I doubt that the update did it, My daughter Macbook has it too and it is a general update of Yosemite. But, if you can backup your files you could go to the restore partition and reinstall Yosemite. The reinstall only installs the operating system and usually does not alter any of the other files. But having a backup is always a good idea. You can start by holding down Option or Option R at startup to do the reinstall.I cannot tell you that this will fix the internal mic problem as it could be that it is defective.

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I had just get a new X220 in recent days.
And I found the internal mic not working, I can not record any sound through Sound Record or Skype.
I had tried all the following methods, but the mic still can not working. Anyone cound give me some suggestion ?
1) update sound card driver to 8.32.23.2
2) Fn+F6, change between "only my voice" or "Multiple voice"
4) UnInstall source card driver and use microsoft generic driver
3) The method in http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/T420-internal-mic-problem/td-p/435551/page/..., operate like :
Start -> control Panel -> Sound
Click on the "Recording" tab
Click Internal Microphone to highlight it
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Finally, click the "Levels" tab and turn Microphone Boost to 0dB. (if you don't do this the noise will be even louder than before).
Click apply.

hey kitewind,
welcome to the forums and since you have tested the microphone using microsoft generic drivers and i'm guessing it did not work; therefore the best action for you right now is to contact our tech support group via
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After upgrading to Lion internal mic does not work with Facetime

After upgrading to Lion internal mic does not work with Facetime. The mic is picking up sound as noted in System Prefs. This was working just fine before the updgrade. Facetime works OK on my iPod.

you have in french a tutorial to recreate your partition here
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Try to change your setup of wifi, look this table given by apple:
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In Control Panel, Device Manager, Sound Video and Game Controllers there are two High Definition Audio Devices listed: Location 1 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus) - I deduce this is the internal mic; and Location 2 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus) - I deduce this is external microphone jack. Both have the same driver version.
The Control Panel, Sound, Recordings Tab showed 2 devices that looked identical except the bars that show green with volume were only on the first one, which is also the default one, and would detect sound if you got real close to the webcam mic when talking. Both devices displayed as 'working'.
Accessories, Sound Recorder recordings are silent no matter how close you get to internal webcam mic.
Dell WebCam Audio Source tab has two selections, both reading Microphone (3 - High Definition Audio Device). Both selections record sound with the EXTERNAL MIC jack. There is no way to select the internal webcam mic, it is not an option.
Per instructions found on the web, I uninstalled the first device only in Device Manager and rebooted. The same driver version as before was installed. But now the settings have changed. Device Mgr still shows Loc 1 and Loc 2. However, under the Sound, Recordings tab there are still 2 devices, but the first one says 'currently unavailable' , is still the default, and the sound bars that go green for audio testing are on the SECOND device now instead of the first one. If you check the Properties for each device, they BOTH are showing the same location Location 2 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus), i.e., the external mic jack. Loc 1 device (built in mic) is not showing up!!
Accessories Sound Recorder works with the EXTERNAL mic. (How does it know which one to use, it's not giving me a choice?)
So the Location 1 device (internal mic) is not showing up anywhere besides the device manager. I want to use the internal mic for skype and webcam. Somehow I need to get the Loc 1 device to show up on the Sound - Recording tab and in the Webcam Audio Source list? What do I do?
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kestark
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Internal Mic and Bluetooth not working together at the same time

Okay.. so I've been noticing this happen alot lately. Whenever I have my usb wacom tablet plugged in (which is almost always), there would be no internal mic input and bluetooth would become "not unavailable". Also, even when I try an external mic, there was no input. Could this be a coincidence or some related usb-bluetooth problem? Could it be my audio input or tablet driver problem?
I've used my mic to skype before I had installed the tablet. Also before I used garage band to record my sister's guitar with an external mic, there was no problem at all, and of course I didn't have my tablet plugged in at the time. Recorded a whole hours worth of music, and didn't have any problems.
Today.. I checked to see if my internal mic was working before I launched skype, and it was working perfectly, and I also noticed my bluetooth was available (didn't test it though). Then I went on skype talked to friend for about 20min, and suddenly the audio stop working. I had my tablet plugged in from earlier today. I restarted my macbook (with no tablet plugged in) and still mic input isn't working. I tried and external mic, but still nothing. I tried uninstalling skype, still nothing.
This is not the first time this happened, I noticed it would somehow fix itself after a few days every time, and mic and bluetooth would start working again out of nowhere. Which makes it even more weird.
Need help pleaseee!
PS. I tried getting someone to fix it before(a few months ago- I don't really use my mic or bluetooth much), but when I brought it in and started up my mac, at that time it was working again. But now it isn't working =(

UPDATE: I just noticed my bluetooth was no longer "unavailable", so I quickly went into system preferences, and noticed that my internal mic input had some input! Very weak though, only 1-2 bars. So what does this mean?

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Hi there,
After I got back my mac book pro from repair. I realised my internal mic is not working? Any idea? Or can I fix this myself?
I tried quicktime to record my voice. I dun hear my voice after I played it.
Thanks.

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I tried updating my audio driver to the latest version. But te problem remains the same.
I also tried to record using SOUND RECORDER. But from that recorded sound, I am getting like an HISSING sound.
Now I have the latest version of the driver only but it is not working. Please help me....
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Hi. I'm wondering if anyone has had trouble with a macbook's internal mic for recording a vocal in garagband? I thought maybe it was the mic itself but it seems to work okay in other apps. But in GB no matter the volume setting when recording or distance from mic it sounds----crappy! Distorted etc...is there some setting within GB I should be looking at? I'm not trying to get professional quality - just scratch vocal/demo (as I had done with G4 iBook and GB). Thanks for your help.
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I noticed exceptionally poor quality of internal mic when recording acoustic guitar piece on iMovie, with the built in iSight camera. Technically, the sound is called "Phasing" - it sounds like a slow 'whoosh' over all of the audio.
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Now my question - does anyone know how to use the iSight (built in) and simultaneously and synchronously record audio using an External Mic - eg the Blue "Snowball" - which is a USB mic.
In theory, the mic should plug in and then show up as an external device, but when I select iSight camera as my video source - the Powerbook automatically assumes that I want to use the internal mic as my audio source.
Have tried to go to Sys Prefs and change 'Input' to USB - but no option to do so
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Hi thanks for the response
unfortunately, it's got nothing to do with MIDI (which is just a series of controller information)
The Blue 'Snowball' External mic is essentially a 'USB Device' and should be recognised as such by the Mac. The data will come in as 16bit, 44.1khz AES bit stream and then be assigned a destination.
The problem is that iMovie does NOT allow me to separate the iSight camera from recording with 'internal mic'
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sorry if i didn't make this clear
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