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Can I use more than one Snowball at a time?
• Some audio editing software allows for multiple USB connections. Check with your software vendor—
they should have technical support staff who can answer all of your questions about their product.
What does cardioid and omnidirectional mean? Why should I care?
• These are the two polar patterns The Snowball is capable of producing. If you think of polar patterns
as the shape of the area that a microphone “hears” omnidirectional hears everything at equal volume
from all angles (in a 360 degree sphere surrounding the mic), while cardioid only hears what’s right
in front of it at full volume and other sounds at increasingly diminished volume as the sound source
moves further away from the center of the mic (audio techs call this off-axis). You should care because
one of the most useful features of a microphone is the ability to control its pickup. We like polar
patterns so much, that some of our professional studio microphones have as many as nine different
patterns! With The Snowball, we’ve given you the two most likely to be useful to you.
What is The Snowball used for? Is it a vocal mic, an instrument mic or both?
• The Snowball was designed to provide a wide range of applications where a high-quality transducer
(a fancy way to say microphone) is needed, but so is ease of use and setup. Though most professional
engineers prefer certain microphones for certain applications, we designed The Snowball for use
with a wide variety of sources. Here are some suggested applications we came up with when we
were locked in Blue’s patented anechoic think tank: instrument and voice for music production/
pre-production/demos, DV-looping/dialog, podcasting, sound effects, audio sampling, interactive
programming, video sweetening/post, internet telephony, internet conferencing, recording lectures,
poetry slams, spoken word performances and speeches by your favorite politician— generally
anywhere where you need an easy-to-use microphone and you have access to a computer with a USB
port. Happy recording!
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