hey everybody welcome back to podcast egde my name is bandru and i am back with another installment
of the verses series today I am putting these two microphones up against each other this is the blue
snowball ice and this is the blue snowball the regular version as far as build quality they're
both relatively similar they're both a full plastic body with a metal grille in the front
the only difference in the main difference between these two microphones the number of
microphone capsules inside the blue snowball ice has a single cardioid microphone capsule inside so
you only have the option of using it as a cardioid microphone the regular blue snowball on the back
has a switch to switch between three different settings number one is a cardioid polar pattern
number two is a cardioid polar pattern with a 10 decibel pad and the third is an omnidirectional
polar pattern so it picks up audio all the way around it now let's go ahead and plug them in now
I'm plugged into the blue snowball ice which will set you back between 45 and 50 dollars the polar
pattern of this one is only cardioid it only as the single microphone capsule and just like
the regular blue snowball they did not provide an actual frequency response so we have no idea what
it is right now I am plugged into the regular blue snowball which will set you back between
60 and 100 dollars depending on the color you get this microphone actually has two different
polar patterns it has a cardioid polar pattern as well as an omnidirectional polar pattern currently
I am using the cardioid polar pattern now I am on the omnidirectional polar pattern and as you
can tell the frequency response is drastically different from the cardioid polar pattern so
as I mentioned this is a cardioid microphone so we'll go ahead and move around the mic to
determine what the frequency response is and all the Prime and unprimed positions so right now
we are on the cardioid polar pattern and we'll go ahead and move around the microphone to see
how the frequency response sounds in all the different positions that you could speak into
it now you're on the omnidirectional setting and we're moving around the microphone and we should
hear a relatively frequent or consistent sound all the way around the microphone okay now I am
banging on a keyboard behind the microphone to see how much of my voice versus how much of the
keyboard it picks up I'm on the cardioid setting on the regular blue snowball to see how much of
my voice first how much of the keyboard behind it it picks up I am on the omnidirectional setting of
the regular blue snowball banging on a keyboard and seeing how much of my voice versus how much
of the keyboard behind it it picks up now I am one foot away from the blue snowball ice I am on the
cardioid setting and I am one foot away from the regular blue snowball I am on the omnidirectional
setting of the regular blue snowball at one foot away now I'm about two feet away from the
snowball ice cardioid setting two feet away from the regular blue snowball one foot away from the
regular blue snowball on the omnidirectional setting now I am about four feet away from the
snowball ice cardioid setting at about four feet away from the regular blue snowball now
I am about four feet away from the regular blue snowball on the omnidirectional setting
tell me what you thought about when you were gone and so alone
the worst is over you can have the best of me we got older but we're
still young we never grew out of this feeling that we won't give up
tell me what you thought about when you were gone in so alone
the worst is over you can have the best of me we got older but we're
still young we never grew out of this feeling that we won't give up
tell me what you thought about when you were gone and so alone
the worst is over you can have the best of me we got older but we're
still young we never grew out of this feeling that we will give up
and the winner of this round is the blue snowball ice and once again let me explain so the reason I
chose the blue snowball ice over the blue snowball regular is mainly because of the
price so the difference is 15 to 20 bucks or even more if you get certain colors of the regular blue
snowball and the omnidirectional setting on the actual regular blue snowball is almost unusable
if you want to record something for voice over or do anything professional it's really only useful
if you're going to be recording a meeting or something for your internal use so basically all
I'm saying is the cardioid setting on the regular snowball is the only useful polar pattern on here
so why pay the extra money if they have a cheaper option which just offers that capsule the only way
I would recommend the regular blue snowball is if you have this underlying need for an
omnidirectional setting if you don't just stick with the blue snowball ice and save some money
but you know what sometimes the actual regular blue snowball is cheaper than the blue snowball
ice so just shop around check the links and go from there alright guys well I guess that will
do it if you do have any more questions leave them in the comments down below if you found
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description down below and I think that's it I will talk to you all later thanks for watching bye
here's a joke for you guys what happens to a snowman when he is sexually teased by a snow woman
he gets blue snowballs I'm ashamed of myself I am sorry I apologize profusely please forgive me guys