Help with my Blue Snowball Mic.

[Wubblez]

My Blue Snowball sounds absolutely horrible in my recordings.
https/www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TUFzcv6-JM&feature=youtu.be
It sounds like it has to much bass in my voice.

Could it simply just be that i dont have a pop filter on it yet?

[OS = Windows 10]

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

Sounds fine to me. Most audio you hear has been post processed, leads a lot of people to be unhappy with the raw audio they get. Take care to position the mic optimally for voice pickup (a few inches from the mic), the further away you are the worse it's going to sound. I have a blue yeti and I had to learn that the hard way.

Pop filters dampen noise and hard "splosive" sounds like hard Ps. Nothing to do with bass.

 

[Wubblez]

I dont have a Arm for the mic atm and it's roughly a foot away from me. Is that a possible issue?

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

I dont have a Arm for the mic atm and it's roughly a foot away from me. Is that a possible issue?

Yes. Open windows voice recorder and just play around. Try a few inches and you'll instantly see that the audio quality is much much better. A foot away is fine for general voice chat, not so much for things like voice overs and recording. Make sure the snowball is set to cardioid mode.

 

[Wubblez]

Whats cardioid mode?

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

Whats cardioid mode?

Only picks up audio from the front of the mic, omni picks up all around the mic.

 

[Wubblez]

How do i do that?

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

How do i do that?

I don't own one so I couldn't tell you, I assume there's a switch or knob on the back, just give it a look over.

 

[Wubblez]

theres no button on normal snowballs. maybe the snowball ice

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

theres no button on normal snowballs. maybe the snowball ice

http/cd.bluemic.com.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/snowball/manual.pdf