A snowball in July

So I’ve been tinkering around with some voice and video recording lately and have come to a conclusion:

The built-in microphone on a Macbook Pro is pitiful best described as barely adequate.

Knowing how to complain to the right people, I told my sad tale of audio woe to Rick last week. Yesterday he swung by with a bag from the Apple store that looks suspiciously like the size and shape of the iPhone box. Barely had I got out, “Oh-geez-no-seriously-you-shouldn’t-have-but-I’m-glad-you-did-I-promise-to-take-real-good-care-of-it-and-not-use-too-many-minutes-on-personal-calls” that he pulled a box for a Blue Snowball.

Here it is sitting on my desk:

With the addition of this guy, playing around with GarageBand has just been barrels of fun. Plus it’s a great conversation starter when people come by.

“What is that thing?”

“That’s like retro and stuff.”

“That’s really cool looking.”

“Blue Snowball? Isn’t that the name of a Furby or a Gremlin or a My Little Pony or something?”

Little kid enchanted horse joking aside it is a fantastic microphone so far. I’m even seriously considering commandeering an empty demo room we have here and turning it into a full recording studio. Now if I only I could get a record deal or a morning drive-time talk radio show…