Sound input options for quicksilver 933 (2002) question.

My little plaintalk microphone does not fit into the audio input of my G4. According to the Specs. for this 'Puter there is no line in provided. I was looking at a Behringer UCA202 USB adaptor, which looks like it may work. I would need to get a splitter for the mike to use the two RCA inputs of the Behringer. - (I guess it's stereo...) The PCI audio cards that I've seen are a little overkill for what I'm after, and much more expensive. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks!!
Tom

I posted a similar question recently. Somebody recommended a M-Audio card to me but as you are finding they are a bit pricey. I think the bottom line is you get what you pay for. I have seen everything from the thousand dollar PCI cards, to a $2 USB converter thing that looks like a flash drive and takes the 3.5 mm plugs for standard computer headphone and microphones. I am tending towards a less expensive device because I have ancient audio tapes with poor quality, though my respondent pointed out that if you take a poor sound source and record it through a low quality converter then you end up with even more garbage.
There's also a similar thing to the Behringer that is made by Griffin (iMic) at the same price. I don't know how they compare in terms of audio quality, but the iMic uses 3.5 mm jacks which would save you the cost of a converter. In my case I want something to attach to my home stereo so I'm glad you pointed out the Behringer.
Brian

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So despite the Pic I found it does not have something like this ?
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1. Bill Hunt,
Jun 26, 2011 9:12 AM in reply to J4e8a16n
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JP,
I do not have my CS5 Extended handy, so will go from the Premiere Pro (Adobe's video editor) side of the street. Bear with me on this, as PS-Extended might do things a bit differently.
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