The Snowball’s been gaining in popularity in the past couple years, and it’s no wonder: the Snowball might truly be the best, most. Onboard audio (not like that would matter for a USB mic. Enter the Snowball USB microphone from Blue Microphones. '2' also records directional sound, but contains more ambient noise. This setting is good for recording in the lab, which has some building noise.

New to their line of mics, is the 99 Nessie, which claims to take the fear out of great recording by instantly delivering studio-enhanced sound for desktop recording. The switch has three settings: '1' records what is directly aimed at the mic, and reduces ambient noise. Has anyone else had this problem? I would really like to know if they have and, if so, how they overcame it. Over the years, I’ve used many microphones, most of which have been made by Blue The Snowball, Yeti, Snowflake, and my latest mic, the Bluebird, which I reviewed recently. I can hear this in the feedback from my friends laptop and it sounds like I'm some kind of dalek from doctor who. Besides a USB port, the mics only means of connection, theres a three-position switch at the rear which is used to switch between two cardioid-pattern modes (. As depending on the USB 3.0 port I use it may or may not work.) It seemed to be barely better than my old boom mic from my headset and set me back £60 (almost the entire price of my entire headset package.)Īside from this, I have it 2-3 feet away from me (where it is convenient) and depending on what mode I have it on (1, 2, 3) it is either really quiet or still quiet but not as quiet.īoth of those problems ignored for now, after 30 odd minutes on skype, the microphone begins making me 'sound like a robot' to other people. I received it today and was meagerly impressed by the audio quality (once it actually decided to show up, of course.

Blue snowball mic switch settings