Snowball or Snowball iCE – Getting the Bang For Your Buck

<p>&lpar;Hello&excl; My name is Elizabeth or &&num;8220&semi;Liz&&num;8221&semi; for short&comma; and this is my first article for Bago&period;  It&&num;8217&semi;s not very long because the Snowball is no longer in my possession&comma; as I now own the Snowball iCE&period; This article is written purely based on my experiences with both microphones&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In this day and age&comma; online communication is becoming more and more necessary&period; From keeping up with friends&comma; to getting a new job&comma; or even making good quality YouTube videos in your spare time&semi; your voice needs to be heard loud and clear&period; In YouTube videos&comma; you will hear the majority of YouTubers talk about their &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;rigs” and how they record their videos&period; It goes anywhere from the software they use into the type of hardware they run to keep their videos pumping out at a steady pace&period; Microphone wise&comma; the majority of YouTubers will recommend that you will need to have at least a Blue Yeti for commentary game play&comma; otherwise your audio quality will not be up to par&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Honestly though&comma; have you looked at the price for a Yeti&quest; You might as well cut off your right leg&comma; because it&&num;8217&semi;s pretty expensive – unless you can catch a good sale then by all means&comma; pick it up&period; If the Yeti is too pricey for you&comma; then check out the Snowball or the Snowball iCE&period; Myself&comma; I have owned both of these wonderful microphones&comma; and haven&&num;8217&semi;t had many issues with them&period; Close to two years later&comma; I had discovered the Snowball iCE and was stunned at the price difference &lpar;though&comma; I can&&num;8217&semi;t complain because my first Snowball was a Christmas gift&rpar;&period; So besides the price difference between the Snowball &lpar;ranging between &dollar;49 &&num;8211&semi; &dollar;63 on Amazon&rpar; and the Snowball iCE &lpar;&dollar;35 &&num;8211&semi; &dollar;49 on eBay&rpar;&comma; are there actually any differences in these microphones&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;04192535&sol;SnowballiCE&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-88838 alignright" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;04192535&sol;SnowballiCE&period;jpg" alt&equals;"SnowballiCE" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"225" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yes&comma; there are maybe about two main differences between the two microphones&period; One being that the Snowball iCE has a shorter stand than the regular Snowball&period; With the Snowball&comma; you have the ability to adjust the height to how you want it&comma; giving the option that you can twist and adjust the stand when needed &&num;8212&semi; with the Snowball iCE&comma; it just comes with this stand that is perfect to just sit on your desk&period; &lpar;Picture on the right is a Snowball iCE&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The second difference that you will find with these microphones is that the back of the Snowball has three switches that you can adjust depending on what situation you&&num;8217&semi;re recording in&period; The first switch is for a solo recording&sol;instrument recording&comma; such as covers of songs or just for playing games with your friends&period; The second switch is for loud voices&sol;instruments&period; A good example of this is if you&&num;8217&semi;re doing a rage video&comma; or if you&&num;8217&semi;re playing some heavy metal music&period; Seriously&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll need switch two to save some ear drums&period; Last but not least&comma; switch number three is used for group voices&sol;instruments&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re with your grandmother in her church choir or if you&&num;8217&semi;re in a garage band&comma; this is the switch for you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also&comma; be aware that these microphones tend to have a high sensitivity level&semi; if you do buy one I recommend that you look into getting a pop filter&period;  A great program to help reduce background noise would be Audacity&comma; which you can download <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;audacityteam&period;org&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">here<&sol;a>&period; The Snowball iCE is perfect for those who just want a good quality microphone without the dodads and knobs&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re wanting something simple to use and has amazing quality&comma; go for the Snowball iCE to save yourself some money&period; If you have a range of videos that differ anywhere between rage videos or just heavy metal instrumentals&comma; I highly recommend the Snowball&period; No matter which Snowball you choose&comma; you will be pleased with both and your wallet will thank you later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;