

Certainly, you'd be hard pressed to argue that the Snowball's construction is deficient. This is no mark of shame-Chinese-made condenser microphones have flooded the market in recent years, and are often of decent quality at low prices for home studios. The Snowball, however, is manufactured in China like many of its competitors. Alesis, M-Audio, and Samson have all jumped in with packaged offerings-Rode even makes a USB microphone named "the Podcaster." But perhaps the oddest-looking member of this group is the $99 Blue Snowball ( Shop.Ars).īlue is actually well-known for its oddly-shaped or retro-styled microphones, which have usually been designed in California and manufactured in Latvia. For your pre-Black Friday reading pleasure, I present for your consideration this Kit guest review by Thomas Wilburn.Īmong professional and "prosumer" audio companies, there's an emerging interest in selling to the podcasting market.
