I have a blue snowball mic on a macbook pro running OSX. I'm recording sound and screen with QuickTime. I get a major echo yet the actual sound is very low. I've adjusted the input vol

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Buy a USB mixer that would plug into the Mac, then plug the Snowball into the mixer. Make sure before you buy the mixer that it will have USB inputs for the Snowball, as most use professional XLR's. The output of a USB based mic like a Snowball is very minute to start with, as USB just does not put out the voltage.

Go into your MACs system prefs, 2nd line -> sound and set your prefs for external mic input...

Do you mean you're hearing reverb (echo) of recording? If your recording music or vocals make sure playback speakers are off when doing so. If you leave them on, you're recording multiple times IE: ECHO

The delay isn't the mic, it's the mixer or how you're routing signal that's causing delay. If you're using a stander mixer use 2 separate "aux.'s" one for your vocalist and 1 for yourself. OR i aux for your vocalist and you listen to final output (stereo mix)

The serial number should be on the box. If you don't have the box, it will be located somewhere on the circuit board inside the mic.


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... sound issues like you are having do pop up occasionally ... the best thing to do is to reboot the system ... sorry.

Cheers.

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Thanks for purchasing the Snowball! The problem doesn't look directly related to the mic (as it's purely USB) and monitoring is dependent on the capabilities of the recording software being used. For direct monitoring, we recommend GarageBand and Audacity.

Hillary, Blue Microphones

try use a dedicated pre-amplif on your mic, and connect to your normal set.

Go to the device manager on your computer, and see that the driver for that mic is turned on or checked.