Blue Snowball

Our own ursuspersonatus requested a sample of audio produced by the Snowball from Blue. It's a small, low cost USB microphone capable of some very nice sound. As it's USB, you don't have to worry about getting a mixer, or analogue to firewire interface, you just plug in and go. The downside is the monitoring. There is no on-board monitor, so you will have to deal with some very slight latency if you're running headphones off the computer. Not a big deal, once you get used to it.

I don't have a studio to record, and often when I need to, I'll construct a soft "fort" made from pillows and bits of the couch, and record on a laptop, not a noisy G5 with half a dozen spinning disks. None of that was done for this recording. It's loud, you can hear some P-popping, and lots of breaths as I do this brief reading of the Economist. I'm sharing this as some may be interested in the sound quality of the mic. For about $100, it ain't bad!

This is audio straight from the mic. No levels were set, no sweetening done, recorded in CD quality uncompressed audio, as an AIFF file (2.9MB, about 30 seconds)

http://localtype.org/vo/econ.aif

LJ won't let me embed an AIFF directly because they suck donkey balls, so you'll just have to DL it.

Blue Snowball

Our own ursuspersonatus requested a sample of audio produced by the Snowball from Blue. It's a small, low cost USB microphone capable of some very nice sound. As it's USB, you don't have to worry about getting a mixer, or analogue to firewire interface, you just plug in and go. The downside is the monitoring. There is no on-board monitor, so you will have to deal with some very slight latency if you're running headphones off the computer. Not a big deal, once you get used to it.

I don't have a studio to record, and often when I need to, I'll construct a soft "fort" made from pillows and bits of the couch, and record on a laptop, not a noisy G5 with half a dozen spinning disks. None of that was done for this recording. It's loud, you can hear some P-popping, and lots of breaths as I do this brief reading of the Economist. I'm sharing this as some may be interested in the sound quality of the mic. For about $100, it ain't bad!

This is audio straight from the mic. No levels were set, no sweetening done, recorded in CD quality uncompressed audio, as an AIFF file (2.9MB, about 30 seconds)

http://localtype.org/vo/econ.aif

LJ won't let me embed an AIFF directly because they suck donkey balls, so you'll just have to DL it.

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