It worked for me on a windows.
Unfortunately if you plug anything in the headphone jack it will override the speakers, because its a combo jack. You can still use your mic, but you would need to use headphones, using a breakout like this. You can see it separates the headphones and the mic as separate jacks. Personally I did this yesterday for a Zoom call.
I believe To accomplish what you want( using this mic, with your built in computer speakers), you can get an rather inexpensive USB audio interface $8 USD and use the Mic input and change the playback or output device to you built in hardware.
You would use that included TRRS to TRS adapter with the 2 solutions above.
As I was typing I just realized there is one may be one more option that might not cost you anything. If you plug your computer to an External Display via HDMI like a television you can output the sound using those speakers in the TV. While just plugging in the mic to the computer. If you just have a monitor, some may have a headphone jack that outputs the HDMI audio,
Sounds like you are familiar with the Sound Devices settings, just make those settings accordingly.
I do have to point out that you should keep the level down to minimize feedback or echos.
I said I’m new to this, lol... but seriously, thank you for letting me know this is the issue. I’m 100% just barely figuring this out.
Am I right that this should fix it? (Lightning to USB3, USB to audio inputs; + external power)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F7KJDIM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_I9rxCb3QCWQNH
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IRVQ0F8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_H-rxCb1VQVS2A
Converting HDMI to VGA rather tricky, I wouldn't trust it. If you just need audio why not something like this? I have one and it works with Linux, windows, Android and switch. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00IRVQ0F8?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
So something like this would be all I need? I just want to make sure since its non refundable
what worked for me was this $9 USB. By using it, I'd use my lav mic as input and my computer's speakers as output. Hope it will work for you too.
You can also buy one of these bad boys https://smile.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Adapter-Windows-AU-MMSA/dp/B00IRVQ0F8
There's shockingly little difference between 90% of USB soundcards. They're almost all C-Media chipsets with different logos slapped on them. The rest are higher end enthusiast DAC's that are completely overkill for ham radio.
An $8.00 USB dongle from Amazon is going to work perfectly fine and perform about the same as most of the other stuff available in the non enthusiast segment.
Where sample rate does matter is with rigs that have I/Q output over a TRS jack. You're going to need sample rate that is capable of encompassing the bandwidth of the RX output. 192Khz is a typical value.
Most PC based digital modes want 16 bits, 48khz. Anything else is overkill and may even be detrimental to performance.
Thank you, side note do you recommend adapters such as this one? As sometimes the 3.5mm jacks on my PC case randomly stop working
This along with an Apple lightning USB Camera adapter will get audio from a mic into your phone, and give you a wired headphone jack. There are others but they mostly all use the same chipset:
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Adapter-Windows-AU-MMSA/dp/B00IRVQ0F8/
It won't be super-awsome 96 KHz quality, but it will allow for connecting cheap mics like the Sennheiser MKE 400, which is over your budget but maybe try out some of the alternatives that come up with a search. Some of are under $50 and could be slightly better than your iPhone's internal mic.
At this price point be ready to return a lot of junk.
A splitter will always reduce the volume of both by its very nature.
You need a second adaptor that windows recognizes as a separate device. That could either be a soundcard (if you have a desktop) or a USB adaptor (good for desktop or laptop).
This is not a recommendation, but from a quick search, something like https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Adapter-Windows-AU-MMSA/dp/B00IRVQ0F8
Then you will have two 3.5 outputs from your computer, instead of one that is being split.
Transferring vhs and cassette will occur in real time, so whatever the length of content is, is how long it will take to record (not like digital files). A long tape you could just leave and go eat lunch, but a bunch of little clips will be annoying unfortunately.
If you're willing to spend money ($140) you can buy a little capture device with a screen, like this, that you just plug into and record to a USB drive, no computer needed. I've never used one, so read reviews! The same company also sells this cassette to usb thing if you dont't want to do the audio cable method described below.
Otherwise, You just need a capture card for your computer, Amazon sells lots of usb ones, some very cheap like this ($13) which might be a pain to setup and capture from if you aren't wanting to do some troubleshooting if it doesn't work, but Personally I would go with something like this Hauppage, or Roxio ($50) they are trusted names and comes with capture software. Otherwise you'd need something like adobe premiere or another video editing program that can "ingest" from the usb device.
You could probably record the audio cassette tapes using that video capture card, though I'm not 100% it does an audio only capture. Otherwise you can get a 3.5 stereo cable and go from the headphone out of your player/walkman into the audio input (usually a pink mic input or labeled w/ a circle with arrow pointing up) on your computer. If your cassette device is rca (red/white) you'll need an rca to 3.5 cable. If your computer is a laptop or doesn't have an audio input, something like this should work. Then use a software like Audacity to record.
Bump People are complaining to me that my mic is getting cut out all the time, should I switch to the modmic? and I want to buy this adapter: https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Adapter-Windows-AU-MMSA/dp/B00IRVQ0F8/ref=pd_cart_vw_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00IRVQ0F8&pd_rd_r=M5S45YQXYW7W2P2QQTQ2&pd_rd_w=wGyXu&pd_rd_wg=nYRoy&psc=1&refRID=M5S45YQXYW7W2P2QQTQ2 is it good? and just because It's not manufactured by antlion it doesn't mean that it can hurt the headphones right? thanks in advance
I’m a newbie (playing since December), so take this for what it’s worth, but this is my very setup. Works well for me.
I’m playing on an Alesis Nitro Mesh kit.
GarageBand works great with this setup.
I hope this helps. Let me know if you have questions