I wrote in my more proper blog today about my recent obsession with, and subsequent decision to create a radio drama, and I didn’t want to go anywhere until I did a short review of the new microphone I’m using.
I’ve been using the same microphone (a cheap logitech headset with a microphone) for over a year now to do all of my various projects, and while it’s worked okay for me, its constant hum and ability to pick up the one sound in the room that I don’t want it to pick up has just recently started to get on my nerves.
And, when I decided that I wanted to produce a radio drama, I knew that I had to replace it.
So, I started looking for a USB microphone that could do everything I needed it to do. Eventually I found one model that I liked a lot: The Blue Snowball Microphone.
It’s a USB condenser microphone that works wonderfully for me. I might be a bit easier to please because of the low-end mic that I’ve been using for so long, but I think the Snowball is an excellent addition to my computer sound studio.
It worked wonderfully straight out of the box and it is dead simple to use. There are three settings: omni-directional, cartioid (one direction), and cartioid with a -10db.
The sound is crisp and clear, it looks sexy on the desk, and with its relatively low price tag ($99 US for the mic and desk stand) I can’t give it higher marks.
