[Rwp] New hardware to use with Reaper: is it just me?

[Christopher-Mark Gilland]

So, here's the deal.  I have a studio grade Blue Bluebird microphone that I bought a while back from Sweetwater which I use for tracking vocals when I record.  It sounds absolutely amazing.  I needed another microphone which I could use on a different system more not for singing but more just for doing voice podcasts, or for things like Skype, Teamtalk, etc.  I can't very easily use that same mike I already have, the Bluebird, as a lot of times I want to be sitting down at my production machine.  The issue is, the mike stand that I'm using for my Bluebird is a floor stand which I have raised about 5 feet in the air, so I can stand at it comfortably.  What I needed was just a little desktop mike.  So, I found the Blue Snowball.  It retails for about $60 in the US.  It's a self powered USB mike.  No prees needed.  It just works.  Anyway, I was wonderring if anyone either has used one a these babies or has at least heard one being used.  I'm asking as I don't know if this is normal, but in Reaper, Sonar, SoundForge, ProTools, you name it, I'm finding that there really isn't much high end to this mike.  By high end, I don't mean high end quality.  I'm speaking of high end frequency.  It doesn't sound at all muddy, just very very boomy/basy.  If I set the padding switch to the low padding or high padding positions, it sounds kind of like someone with no compression raising the gain who is standing across the room from a mike with the gain hardly turned up.  Best way I can describe it is, it sounds like a sort of shorted out mike cable.  It sounds great though with the padding off completely, aside that it's again, just really got no high end that I can really hear.  It's very clear, just a little more boomy than I expected.  I heard someone use one of these things before buying it.  I want to say it was Michael shoot... what's his last name, I don't remember.  He does the How to Be Blind podcast.  Anyway, don't quote me on this, but I'm 98% sure that was what he was using on the recording I heard him do.  Mike Melarcy!  There!  I knew I would think of it.  It was on the tip a my tongue!  LOL!  Anyway, I dono.  It's possible that he did what I'm gonna have to do, and e queued the thing.  That's no issue if I do.  I'm just wonderring if this mike is notorious for this, or if you all know.

Chris.
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