BLUE Snowball microphone
has anyone used the BLUE Snowball mic, the usb one? Does it work with logic? I know this company makes great mics. I wonder how this $150 mic works with vocals?
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G5, Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Yes, I have used the Snowball with Logic, but it took a lot of looking around at other posts on this forum to see how.
First, you need to be running Tiger - are you? It would be nice if you have GarageBand, because the Snowball works out of the box with GB, so if you can record a track on GB with it you know that nothing's wrong with the mic or the USB connection.
Then you've got to monkey with Logic to make it work there. You will record blank audio unless you do these steps:
First go to Audio MIDI Setup and create an "aggregate device" that includes the Blue Snowball. As a newbie to Logic and digital audio but a well-trained musician and computer professional, it took me a while to figure out how to do this.
But, still I kept recording blank tracks.
Another post on this forum solved my problem: on my audio track I found that I could choose "Input 3" or "Input 4" in the I/O slot. Then, as a still-excited Newbie, I learned how to use the Vocoder, using the Blue Snowball to create my side-chain track (and carefully reading the Logic manual to see how to do it.)
Dual G5 and PowerBook Mac OS X (10.4.4) 4GB RAM on Dual G5
First, you need to be running Tiger - are you? It would be nice if you have GarageBand, because the Snowball works out of the box with GB, so if you can record a track on GB with it you know that nothing's wrong with the mic or the USB connection.
Then you've got to monkey with Logic to make it work there. You will record blank audio unless you do these steps:
First go to Audio MIDI Setup and create an "aggregate device" that includes the Blue Snowball. As a newbie to Logic and digital audio but a well-trained musician and computer professional, it took me a while to figure out how to do this.
But, still I kept recording blank tracks.
Another post on this forum solved my problem: on my audio track I found that I could choose "Input 3" or "Input 4" in the I/O slot. Then, as a still-excited Newbie, I learned how to use the Vocoder, using the Blue Snowball to create my side-chain track (and carefully reading the Logic manual to see how to do it.)
Dual G5 and PowerBook Mac OS X (10.4.4) 4GB RAM on Dual G5