Griffin iMic doesn't record

[CJB]

Please can someone advise. I have a Griffin iMic and Audacity s/w. I
plug the Griffin into a USB port on my laptop, and the other end into
the speaker out port of the tape recorder. I set the griffin to Line
or Mic. Then I start the tape recorder playing and turn the volume up
a tad. I then set Audacity to record using Stereo Mix or Line In - yet
nothing is captured. Please can someone advise. Thanks - Chris Brady.

[Laurence Payne]

Is Audacity looking at your onboard Line In, or the iMic?

[CJB]

On May 11, 12:59 am, Laurence Payne <lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom>
wrote:

Thanks for responding. Its looking at the iMic driver - but ignoring
it!! Chris B.

[honestguvnor]

You do not say if you are using a Mac, PC or Linux?

I have always used audacity with files and was unaware it could record
having always used other programs for this. I downloaded the current
stable binary version for a PPC Mac but could not see how to set the
recording parameters within the program (possible user error here).
Pressing the record button caused the program to core dump. I did not
bother to try the beta version. The source might work but the greyed
out "About" menu option indicates a less than whole hearted support of
OSX and I could not be arsed to install the required old version of
WxWidgets. I am using OSX 10.3 and the audio changed a lot in 10.4 so
the problem may be here.

Whatever, it failed for me as well. Using a separate recording program
is an obvious work around if this is viable for whatever you are
doing.

I have an iMic and it has always worked fine with the Mac but there
are several versions of iMics with different chips internally and so
this is not saying a lot.