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Blue:Blue
Form Factor:Condenser Microphone
Maximum SPL:96 dB
Color:Black
Snowball:Snowball
Connectivity:USB,Wired,Wireless
Diaphragm Size:Large
Features:Mountable,On/Off Switch,Adjustable Stand,Plug and Play
Country/Region of Manufacture:China
Transducer Type:Condenser
Suitable For:Broadcasting
Look as good as you sound with this great PC or Mac podcast or videoconference mic! Ready to use with stand and cable – tested, and works great! a great bang for the buck on upgrading your vocal recording quality. Great for live streaming, online meetings (Zoom, Skype, etc.), podcasting, video narration, etc. This Snowball has a switchable pattern (cardioid or omnidirectional). The Snowball is a 44.1KHz/16-bit mic. In digital audio sound must be converted to ones and zeros (digital). USB mics have converters built right into them, which is what makes them so handy. Standard mics must be plugged into a separate interface with converters inside. Motherboard sound cards also have converters, but they are of low quality and not recommended for recording. Anyway, moving on with the specs.There is a switch on the back of the mic with 3 positions. The manual reveals these 3 positions to be:First Position – activates cardioid capsuleSecond Position – activates the cardioid capsule with a -10dB PADThird Position – activates the omni capsuleSo Blue Snowball mic has two pickup patterns, cardioid and omni-directional. That’s pretty darned cool. Cardioid means it picks up sound best that is in front of the mic, rejecting what’s behind and to the sides of it. This helps keep noise down. Most mics default to that pickup pattern. Omni-directional is just what it sounds like. It picks up sound equally from all directions – behind, below, above, etc. – a 360-degree sphere. This setting is useful for small singing groups (can gather around the mic), conferences, interviews, and environmental recordings (using a laptop I guess). A word of warning about the omni setting though – if your recording space is not ideal, the omni pattern will pick up a lot more noise and room echo/reverb than the cardioid pattern.Set up was a breeze. I was wondering how to adjust the angle and tried shifting it around. To my delight it reacted exactly as I had hoped, swiveling on a ball-and-socket joint built into the mic. Very nice.I tried it on a Windows 7 (32-bit) machine, attaching and plugging in the included USB cable. Windows automatically installed the driver when I plugged int the cable, in about 15 seconds, and it showed up as an audio device called Blue Snowball in Devices and Printers.Next I opened Reaper, my standard recording software program, to actually test out how it sounded. First I wanted to see if it showed up as an available mic, so I went to Preferences (Ctrl-P), changed the Audio system to “DirectSound” (it had been set to ASIO for my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Interface), and voila! Under Input Device was “Microphone (Blue Snowball).” Excellent and so very easy.How Does It Sound?Obviously in a review of a microphone, sound is top priority. The first thing I wanted to check for was the low-level hiss I have noticed in all the USB mic I’ve used to date. The result? Holy cow! I couldn’t believe how quiet the Snowball was, especially compared to the Samson C01U USB mic, which is a comparable product, even costing the same. So the first thing I did was record silence with both mics. Then I recorded my voice into both mics, reading the same short passage.* The result was still pretty amazing. The hiss is quite loud in the Samson, where there is no hiss at all in the Snowball. In fact, you can actually hear the clock on my wall ticking in the Snowball sample. Take a listen to both samples below.Audio Player00:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.Samson C01U – silence onlyAudio Player00:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.Snowball – silence onlyHow did the voice recordings sound? Well this is where it gets interesting. Though they both sounded good, the Samson C01U sounded a bit better to me, more balanced and full. I also noticed that the Snowball picked up more of the room sound (a bit echo-y). However, the Snowball was much better at not over-emphasizing plosives (p-pops), which is a big plus in my book. Normally, even using a pop-filter in front of a mic, I still have to edit out the p-pops in my vocal recordings. Not only did I not need a pop-filter for the Snowball, but there was no need to edit them out as usual.**Upon double-checking I discovered that the Samson’s pickup pattern is actually “hyper-cardioid,” (compared just “cardioid” for the Snowball), which means that it will pick up less room sound from the back and sides of the mic, but also make it more sensitive to plosives. This explains why the Snowball sample had more room sound in it, but fewer problems with the popping “Ps”. Listen to the 2 samples below.Audio Player00:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.Samson C01U – voice recordingAudio Player00:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.Snowball – voice recordingThey’re both very good, just different. And at least some of that difference is explained by the different pickup patterns. Looking at several reviews on the web comparing these same two mics, I found that some folks preferred the Snowball and others liked the Samson better. I think this is a case of personal preference.The first thing I noticed was that the actual mic was larger than I thought it would be, having only seen pictures of it. It is about as large as a softball, about 4 inches in diameter. It has a standard microphone stand coupling (hole) so you can use any stand you have. But it comes with a ripod desk stand as seen in the picture on the left, with rubber feet, which helps prevent noise from the desk traveling through the stand and into the mic. This can be handy for voice-over applications and as well as computer communication for use with as Skype, and other on-line conferencing applications.SummaryOverall I give the Snowball high marks. It gets maximum style points – it just looks cool. It also generated less self-noise than any other USB mic I’ve used. On the most important scale – sound quality – the Snowball is very good.* I “normalized” the levels of both mics to make sure the differences in noise volume were not affected by sensitivity and gain differences.** I did not use a pop-filter with either mic in either test recording, nor did I edit them out. This allows you to hear how prevalent they are in the Samson but not in the Snowball.
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