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Re: USB Microphones

On Sat, 26 May 2007, L.A. Angulo wrote:

> Gang,
> has anybody tried these USB mics? how do they differ
> in terms of quality from normal XLRs?
> ive been checking these out
> http://www.thomann.de/gb/the_tbone_sc450_usb.htm
> thanx for your input
> Luis

Luis:

I've not seen this Thomann USB mic you link to, and I can find very little 
about it on the Web. I have and use a BLUE Snowball USB mic, mostly for 
phonography purposes.

Here's some collected recordings I've made with the Snowball of ambient 
weather in three cases, and of a running refrigerator compressor motor (by 
request of someone either on this list or the ct-collective list, I can't 
remember at the moment).

http://www.subscapeanne.com/other/snowfall_at_imbolc.mp3
http://www.subscapeanne.com/other/bog_night_wind_1.mp3
http://www.subscapeanne.com/other/ambient_postrain.mp3
http://www.subscapeanne.com/other/fridgemp3.mp3

These would be more useful if I'd been recording with another rig 
simultaneously for comparison, but this is what I've got to share today.

best,
Steve B
Subscape Annex http://www.subscapeannex.com/