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Using your earbuds as a mic

Using your earbuds as a mic

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Using your earbuds as a mic

- [Instructor] If you want to use something that you already have without purchasing an additional audio interface, there is hope, especially if that thing that you have, your earbuds, headphones, whatever, has three bands on the jack. If it has three bands on the jack and you have a Mac, you're in the game, and it could be true for some Windows computers as well. They're not as consistent as Macs because they're made by different people and have different specs, but on a Mac especially, you could be in the game. Now, same thing here with these Skullcandy headphones. They have a microphone right here, and they have three bands on the jack. Okay, let me show you how this works, and why this may work out for you. When you look at a laptop computer, in this case, a MacBook Pro, we generally think of this as a headphone port only, but it's actually a mic and a headphone port. If you plug the right sort of device into it,…

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