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excellent hey everyone welcome back to pulsar where today I'm going to be doing an unboxing of this USB microphone this is the blue snowball even though it's actually black alright guys let's take a closer look at the blue snowball now in case you're wondering why I bought this mic it was a bit of an impulse buy I will admit I'm kind of continuously looking for different ways to improve the quality of my videos if I can and I think audio is one thing that I definitely don't have an end-all solution for yet in case you're wondering what I'm using right now to record myself it's a rode videomic pro and it's actually a really nice mic but right now I have it positioned way too close to my face and I'm just looking for something a little bit more versatile possibly or I don't know am I just end up using that one I might just get some more accessories for the video mic Pro - let me use it in different configurations but anyway looking at the outside of the box here we have some specifications this is a USB mic so features plug-and-play design it's compatible with both Mac and PC no complicated drivers required it works automatically with Windows XP Vista and Mac should work just fine with Windows 7 or Windows 8 as well dual condenser capsules offer unrivaled CD quality audio includes an adjustable adjustable mic stand as well as the USB cable and it's good for recording vocals instrumentals podcasting voice over IP voice recognition software multimedia hey I am Yahoo etc etc there's some pictures of people using the mic doing different things okay let's look at some of the features and specs on the back here alright so cool features which I'm always looking for cool features dual capsule cd-quality microphone for superior sound multiple mic patterns USB cable rugged adjustable mic stand there's different languages down here some extra accessory is available from blue and then I will note that this is the gloss black version it's also available in textured white gloss white as well as brushed aluminum there's the other side of the box and next I'm going to open up the box and take this mic out first off we have a snowball you connect our USB guide picture of its introduction position applications one two three little response frequency layout there it's a couple different modes for this you can you can do a unidirectional as well as omnidirectional there's a shock mount you can get for it software lots of different languages here look maybe I should have been looking at the English version ah that's much better okay okay so here's a look at the English side of the manual Tech Specs condenser microphone three positions so first position as exploits the cardioid capsule for speech vocals and podcasting second position activates cardio capsule with a -10 decibel pad so if you want to record louder something that's louder you use that and that way you won't peek probably like I've been doing this whole time since my mic is currently positioned way too close to my my face third position is third position is the Omni capsule that's for recording audio in all directions so for conferences interviews or environmental recording little frequency response guide right there how to set up the snowball system requirements setup procedure suggested application it's okay I'm not going to walk through the entire manual even right in those two pictures now here the accessories there's the mic a little finish on that so included USB cable this is kind of your pretty standard USB a 2 B type cable like you probably see with a lot of printers kind of silver color and here is the included stand which i think is a nice add-on you can see it's got the blue logo right there on it through the legs so tripod Oh sits on the table like so that you threaded threaded mount therefore the mic itself and then it does feature some adjustment in here by loosening this Center thing you can raise or lower it by a few inches at least gives you a little bit of flexibility and lock that down and take a closer look at the snowball all right so here's the glass black version of the snowball you can see the chrome blue logo right there on the front indicator light and tell you that it's on you can see the Blue Microphones D snowball and on the side design by blue assembled in China here's the three position setting so one two and three as indicated in the manual finally over here we have the USB connector so that's where usually connected via USB to connect to your computer and finally here at the bottom is the actual stand mount which I will I will note really quickly that's actually got a little bit of a rocker adjustment as well I'm totally spinning the wrong part of this alright that's all good enough for now so as you can see stands on the desk and it does have a little bit of tilt so you can sort of tilted angle different ways so depending where you are sitting if you want to angle it up if it's down below your if you position it above your ankle it down it is directional so you do want to speak into this side of the mic when it's actually on and that pretty much wraps it up for this unboxing and that's going to wrap it up for this video guys once again this has been my unboxing and overview of the blue snowball USB microphone again I will be doing a comparison of this microphone along with at least one more maybe a few more in an additional upcoming video as I try to determine my best options for getting good high quality sound here in my little room where I do my videos but again if you'd like to see more tech videos unboxings and other types of tutorial videos you can find those on my Paul's Hardware youtube channel don't forget to subscribe send me a like if you liked the video we'll see you all next time