Best USB Microphone | Blue Snowball USB iCE Condenser Microphone Review + Test

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what's going on guys it's Nate here back with another video and today we're going to be taking a look at the blue snowball ice EE condenser microphone now this is probably the best USB microphone you can get for the price especially starting out as a beginner you can pick this baby up for less than $50 on Amazon I'll leave a link to it in the description below as well as some other things I may have forgotten to mention in this video now this is the smaller more affordable blue snowball microphone and in just a second i'ma switch over to the blue snowball microphone so that you can actually hear the type of audio quality that this might get capable of capturing also don't forget to hit the subscribe button so that you don't miss any videos like this one and don't forget to give it a thumbs up to let me know if you've done this video was helpful alright so now I'm actually using the blue snowball microphone and as you can see right off the bat this microphone is an enormous step up from an on-board microphone that you would have in your computer or under webcam and I do have to admit that the build quality of this device is surprisingly very nice very sturdy definitely well built honestly could probably kill someone with this thing if you throw hard enough but you know obviously you don't want to do that without being said though it is it does have a nice weight to it it's not too heavy not too light and you can get this microphone in at least two different colors black or white and it's very easy to operate you can simply plug this device into your computer using the USB cable that's provided and then begin recording audio within seconds so there's actually no power buttons on this model and actually there's no buttons at all on this edition of the blue snowball which obviously has its pros and cons to it the great thing about not having any buttons is that it's very straight forward and you can easily record high-quality audio with just the touch of a button I've used this microphone hundreds of times whether it be for voiceovers or Skype calls or podcasts or maybe even recording music the blue snowball is definitely the best USB mic for your money now when I do product reviews I always try to make sure that I include some downsides of the product and to be honest there aren't a whole lot of negatives about this mic but the one thing that I find to be sort of a hassle is that you need to be very close to this mic in order for the sound quality to have that nice crisp deep-sounding audio for example right now my mouth is probably about six or seven inches away from the microphone and in just a second I'm going to move back to about 18 inches away and so you can see the difference in the audio quality all right so now about 18 inches away from the microphone and so now I'm closer now but you can see that you do have to be very close to microphone and that is with many microphones but sometimes it might have something like a shotgun mic where you can be you know a few feet away and still get that nice quality so just be aware that you will have to be pretty close to this microphone in order to get good audio so that's about it for this video thanks so much for watching hopefully you can see that this might definitely is one of the better mics for the price of just $49 on amazon.com don't forget that there's a link in the description box below and let me know in the comments section any ideas you might have for future videos or any questions you might have about this microphone and I should be able to respond to your questions within 24 hours hopefully so thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time