subject: Snowball Microphone - A Great Upgrade To Your Sounds [print this page] If you've ever gone to the computer shop and purchased a low-cost microphone for your computer you may have been less than pleased with the recording results. Granted, these units can be gotten for five or ten bucks and they do work well enough for some things, but if you're looking for accurate sound reproduction and excellent tonal quality they fall short. The Snowball Microphone, however, is in a class of it's own. Here's why.
The Snowball is a USB plug in device capable of reproducing with superior sound quality right out of the box. There's no need to download any software or to install any drivers for this unit to begin functioning immediately, once a short and easy calibration is completed. It is plug and play in the true sense of the words.
As in most buying decisions, it's usually a good idea to go onto the Internet and look for some user reviews of the product you're considering. You can find hundreds of comments rating this particular microphone and, after reading any number of these you realize people really love this microphone. And many of these reviewers are professional musicians or 'sound' people, which makes their opinion even more credible.
One unprecedented feature of the Snowball is its dual-capture design that allows it to capture sound in three different modes... from soft vocals to pounding live-rock music. The clean sound reproduction it delivers is free from both distortion and feedback. It's ideal for recording live music, Podcasts, conversations or live chats.
The Snowball is also very cool looking and quite unique in its physical design. It's fashioned in a retro-sense, like the way microphones looked in 'the old days'. In fact, it actually sort of looks like the one Dave uses on the Letterman Show.
The Snowball works with either a PC or a Mac and only requires 64 MB of memory. It will also work with any of the later operating systems, including Windows 7 and XP. There are three colors available (white, black, aluminum) but the classic is white... thus, the name. The unit comes complete with an attractive tripod and the cord necessary for connection to your machine.
If you're ready for an upgrade on your computer's recording capability you definitely want to take a look at some info on the Snowball Microphone. Make sure to read through some of the reviews. It won't take long to be convinced that, for the money, this is far and away the best computer mic out there.
