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Almost made it into the lulwut threads in the mods room but thought i'd share my experience here.
For the last 2 nights, I've been helping a friend set up a music production room in his man cave/extension consisting of 2 Pioneer CDJ-2000 Nexus' and an Allen & Heath Xone 92 Mixer. I set everything up fine and got as far as connecting it to the device he wanted to stream to Facebook/Youtube from and that's where we came a bit unglued.
His 2012 Macbook wouldn't detect any input audio from the connected 3.5mm jack. After some troubleshooting and reading up online it came about that Apple decided to create some of these laptops with a combo port and the only way to enable it to detect a mic or input source was to use a TRRS cable - so we ordered some from Amazon and tackled it again yesterday.
Low and behold, that didn't work either. I rang my dad and contacted several audiophile friends on Facebook to see if anyone could offer some advise as to why it isn't working as my experience with anything Apple related is somewhat limited. Various testing took place based on several suggestions until my dad called me back and mentioned that one site he had come across (which we found ourselves a few moments later) stated Apple removed the input feature/line in from Macbook's in late 2012 and the only way to input now was via USB.
As you can imagine, we were a little confused as to why they decided to do such a thing and was frustrated that something so simple to do was made infinitely more difficult as a result of them removing a port/feature. I have advised him to grab a cheap laptop if he can or we'll need to explore what options we have to output his mixer via 6.35mm to USB.
For the last 2 nights, I've been helping a friend set up a music production room in his man cave/extension consisting of 2 Pioneer CDJ-2000 Nexus' and an Allen & Heath Xone 92 Mixer. I set everything up fine and got as far as connecting it to the device he wanted to stream to Facebook/Youtube from and that's where we came a bit unglued.
His 2012 Macbook wouldn't detect any input audio from the connected 3.5mm jack. After some troubleshooting and reading up online it came about that Apple decided to create some of these laptops with a combo port and the only way to enable it to detect a mic or input source was to use a TRRS cable - so we ordered some from Amazon and tackled it again yesterday.
Low and behold, that didn't work either. I rang my dad and contacted several audiophile friends on Facebook to see if anyone could offer some advise as to why it isn't working as my experience with anything Apple related is somewhat limited. Various testing took place based on several suggestions until my dad called me back and mentioned that one site he had come across (which we found ourselves a few moments later) stated Apple removed the input feature/line in from Macbook's in late 2012 and the only way to input now was via USB.
As you can imagine, we were a little confused as to why they decided to do such a thing and was frustrated that something so simple to do was made infinitely more difficult as a result of them removing a port/feature. I have advised him to grab a cheap laptop if he can or we'll need to explore what options we have to output his mixer via 6.35mm to USB.
Do a test. Plug the jack leads in to an input somewhere - the mixing desk would be a good place. Plug the other end in to the macbook headphone socket. Play something, and I bet you get sound out of both channels the jack lead is plugged in to.
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