The bundled tripod is solid and stable thanks to three low and wide legs. It’s heavier than one would expect thanks to a cast metal housing. The Blue Snowball impresses from the start. The great eye of the Blue Snowball peeks out of the retail package The Snowball has received great reviews (I first heard about it in Wired magazine) but since Gestalt IT handed out a few as door prizes at our first Tech Field Day in November the raves have been coming in from folks I know and trust. It’s a white softball-sized usb mic with three selectable audio modes. Ironically, the Blue Snowball doesn’t actually come in blue. Tip: Although Blue Microphones enforces a “minimum advertised price” of $99, Amazon actually sells the Blue Snowball for under $75 with free shipping! The Blue Snowball
Wanting better sound, I upgraded my Logitech microphone to the highly-regarded Blue Microphones Snowball desktop USB microphone. I’ve long suffered listening to the inaudible and miserable microphones used by so many others, but my own gear wasn’t much better. Since I work out of my home office, I’m also an avid audio and video conference user. Over the last year I’ve really jumped into recording podcasts, from InfoSmack to the VMware Communities Roundtable. The Blue Snowball is the size of a softball and packs killer sound performance
