Problem with audacity

[yassatoubab]

Hi

I've been trying to record spoken words with audacity.

I use a griffin imic.
Microphone is plugged into "in". Side button is set to "mic".

Mac sound settings and audacity settings are shown in the attached screenshots.

With these settings I can record sounds and voice, but the volume is extremely low.

What could be the problem?

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

In the 2nd image, when you talk into the mic, what levels are you seeing? The input volume slider is set to a fairly low level, have you tried increasing it?

 

[yassatoubab]

I've moved the slider to all possible places. It doesn't affect the results.

 

[Kaveman]

the Mic must be to low powered to drive the iMic input, this is often the case, I always use a preamp to bring the levels up to Line levels.