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Blue Microphones Snowflake USB
Created: 08/21/2008
Video description: The Snowflake USB microphone is more flash than substance, but it's a slick way to outfit your computer with an external microphone.

Blue Microphones Snowflake USB Video Transcript

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>> Hi I'm Donald Bell, Senior Editor for Digital Audio and MP3 and today we're taking a First Look at the Blue Snowflake USB microphone. The Snowflake retails for around $70 and it's a stylish, no-frills microphone that connects directly to your computer over USB. Blue microphone brands the Snowflake as the little brother of their popular and equally stylish Snowball USB microphone. But it's easy to pick up in the Snowball's superior sound and construction quality. Still, the Snowflake looks pretty cool on your desk or perched on your screen. It's universally compatible with both Mac and PC and folds up easily to take on the go. The sound quality of the Snowflake is a definite improvement over the microphone both into your laptop or a $10 mini-jack mike due in part that all of the sound is being captured and processed away from your noisy computer and your cheap sound card. So if you're looking for a classy way to improve the quality of your voice-over VoIP or Skype, or if you're a musician looking for a simple and rugged USB microphone for recording song ideas on your computer, the Blue Snowflake might just be the thing. I'm Donald Bell and that was a First Look at the Blue Snowflake USB microphone. ^M00:01:05 [ Music ]

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Blue Microphones Snowflake USB Review

The good: The Blue Microphones Snowflake offers a classy way to outfit your Mac or PC with an above-average external USB microphone.

The bad: The Snowflake is surprisingly heavy, awkward to perch on a laptop screen, and its recording quality may not satisfy musicians.

The bottom line: The Snowflake USB microphone is more flash than substance, but it's a slick way to outfit your computer with an external microphone.

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Blue Microphones Snowflake USB Specs

Manufacturer: Blue Microphones
Part number: SNOWFLAKE

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