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. Options > Audio Settings > Device > select your new Aggregate Device. Onboard audio (not like that would matter for a USB mic. 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.

Has anyone else had this problem? I would really like to know if they have and, if so, how they overcame it. I can hear this in the feedback from my friends laptop and it sounds like I'm some kind of dalek from doctor who. You can stuff it into bags time and time again, and it’ll still be. You can knock it around and it won’t show damage.

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. Blue’s Snowball Ice is a really affordable little soldier of a USB mic. 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