Microphone not Recognized

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?
I posted this same question in the GarageBand forum, if anyone's wondering.
~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.
jc
ps. There are already a number of Posts in this forum on this very subject. You may want to have a bit of a look.
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