20 Most Recent Blue Microphones Snowball Professional Microphone Questions & Answers

Buy a USB mixer that would plug into the Mac, then plug the Snowball into the mixer. Make sure before you buy the mixer that it will have USB inputs for the Snowball, as most use professional XLR's. The output of a USB based mic like a Snowball is very minute to start with, as USB just does not put out the voltage.

How to use USB device like a USB microphone, or USB guitar Cable in CubaseThis was a frustrating problem for me and I found most forums did not really helpAfter hours of annoyance I finally figured it out and it's a very easy and quick fix.1.Download free ASIO4ALL 2.8 here http://download.chip.eu/en/ASIO4ALL-2.8_108174.html and then restart cubase2.Click Devices and Open Device Setup3Click Vst Audiobay and Change the Master ASIO Driver to ASIO4ALL v24.Underneath Vst AudioBay Click ASIO4ALL and Click Control Panelhighlight All devices you wish to use and Enable them.5.Still in Device Setup hit VST Inputs and check to make sure all Devices are there6.Exit Device Setup and under the Devices open VST connectionsClick add bus, and Add Busses. Your Sound Device should be the first Bus that pulls upand the other busses will automatically be whatever the USB Devices you enabled were.7.Last thing and very important, when you open up a new Audio track Right click where it shows Stereo in. Your usb devices will start at stereo in 2 and depending on how many you enabled go up in numbers from there.In my particular case I have a Blue Snowball usb mic as my first Device (stereo 2)and a Usb Guitar Cable interface as my second device (stereo 3)*If you would like to hear and test your sound prior to playback simply click the monitor button and unclick it at playback.That simple, there you go.This will work, takes and takes less than a minute.

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There could be a few possibilities, they are:

* Your driver is corrupt, not recognizable or compatible
* Your hardware or device malfunction
Assuming that your device is in good condition and your driver is compatible with Windows. What's next? try the following solutions:
Method 1 - Unplug your USB device, restart your computer wait for 5 minutes, plug in your USB device again. This enables your motherboard to clear all of its cache.
Method 2 - Uninstall and Reinstall your driver
Method 3 - Use the Device Manager to scan for new and recently installed hardware.
Go to 'Start' -> 'Run' -> Type 'devmgmt.msc' (step 2) and then click 'Ok'.
Select 'Action' Menu, click 'scan for hardware changes'. Windows will perform a quick registry scan for any new hardware changes. IF it still doesn't work, try this:

* Test the hardware on another computer, if it works, then it could be your Windows. If it doesn't, try it on another different computer. If the USB device does not work again, it could be hardware malfunction. See your dealer if it is a new purchase.
* Obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP, it could be a bug.
* Shut down your computer and unplug your computer from the power supply, allow the motherboard to clear its cache and memory, restart and plug in your USB.

This is strictly a software setup problem. I use Sonar, but Cubase has to have the same features. Look for a PAN control and also where you MIGHT be able to select that both channels of the stereo are mapped to the single input. A work-around might be to bounce the input to a second track and then do a channel swap on one of the stereo channels, then combine them. I think Cubase uses the word "flip".Search your documents for keywords: flip, bounce, swap, pan, and assign input. You can also copy and paste the recorded channel to a second stereo blank channel before flipping it and combining.

Try flipping the connection at the back of the mic. If you have it hooked up upside down, the light will come on, but the mic will not be recognized either in your recording software or in system settings. There doesn't seem to be any indicator on the cord as to which way is up. I marked mine with a marker. Problem solved!

Read this...it might help you figure a few things out.http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SnowballBK?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=none&gclid=CN2AzMiZ4bQCFQSf4Aodd1MAxg

I would say that your sound card is going away.

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When you plug it in is it recognized at all? Also what operating system are you running?

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My guess is the MAC's own built-in microphone and/or speakers were on at the time. Maybe next time run a quick sound check.

Go into your MACs system prefs, 2nd line -> sound and set your prefs for external mic input...

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Go to Mac audio settings, select and set the input device and the mixer to the same device (your mic),

Set the Mixer/Mux/Lin, line must be set to the be microphone. Ensure that line volume is up.
Check if direct sound is selected in Mac settings, in some case you need to uncheck it.

Let me know in case that does not fix the problem, I will have a look to see if there is any issue that can be related to the Snownball.

Do you mean you're hearing reverb (echo) of recording? If your recording music or vocals make sure playback speakers are off when doing so. If you leave them on, you're recording multiple times IE: ECHO

The delay isn't the mic, it's the mixer or how you're routing signal that's causing delay. If you're using a stander mixer use 2 separate "aux.'s" one for your vocalist and 1 for yourself. OR i aux for your vocalist and you listen to final output (stereo mix)

install windows 7 driver for your microphone, use cd driver that come with you microphone