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

[Patrick Perdue]

That mic is everything you want a mic not to be. Nasty, resonant 
midrange at it's best, wide axis, ultra-sensitive. Do yourself a favor 
and don't bother.

Working in the field of podcasting, I find lots of people who are 
unfortunate enough to own one of these, so I made a track template to 
sort of try to compensate for it's issues. After stacking a few notch 
filters and an exciter, the best I can come up with is changing from 
"cup" to "tube." Really, I have nothing good to say about that thing.

As I often tell people, Blue are great at marketing and distribution, 
not so much for everything else, at least when it comes to the consumer 
market.

I won't insert my thoughts about the Yeti here, either.

On 4/6/2015 4:32 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland via RWP wrote:
> 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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