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Blue Microphones Snowball
Ylo Ylo
Published on 03/03/07 at 09:37
Microphone type: 2 capsules
3 positions: cardioid, cardioid with 10 dB pad, and omnidirectional (second capsule).
Technology: capacitor.
Plugs into a USB port.
Appearance: ... a lot of plastic shaped ball bigger than what you can expect when you see it in his globe (about 10 cm in diameter). Telescopic steel tripod well made solid in appearance (about 18 cm unfolded). Made in China ... It is written in big top, this one is not wrong!

OVERALL OPINION

Received this morning ...
This microphone is virtually unusable out of position with pad! It saturates very quickly. Do not expect to record a repeated in omnidirectional, it is cooked! Blue has released two patches, one for recording and another powerful Registration lower. Indeed the level drops but still saturates the microphone. These patches are in fact drivers, and you have to install one that uninstalls the other. It's pretty quick, but it is not instantaneous (click on the patch, remove micro micro ... ... Reconnect disconnect, reconnect ... OK!). To solve the problem may need to be put behind a door.
Huge latency (ms 325.079 as Cubase), impossible to record with headphones. We can do without, but can not add a second runway to less than reset the mouse!
Recording quality: not even want to dwell on it.
The microphone still has something good, it's pretty easy to put it back in its box to send it back where it came from!
A joke do we dare to leave such a m. .. ?