If youвЂ™re working with a particularly loud vocalist or recording electric guitar, using a pattern with less sensitivity is a great way to ensure you donвЂ™t hear any clipping.ДЄs long as you select the correct polar pattern setting, for your situation, and make sure youвЂ™re not clipping, you should be able to reduce some unwanted background noise. Cardioid pattern, with a -10dB Pad вЂ“ the same as the Cardioid, except, itвЂ™s less sensitive, to accommodate louder sound sources.If omni is left on, when recording a single source, youвЂ™ll experience a lot of background noise from your blue snowball mic.

If youвЂ™re recording an acoustic band performance, you should select the omni pattern for example.

The OMNI polar pattern вЂ“ better for recording multiple sources of sound.

Unlike the following setting, a Cardioid polar pattern wonвЂ™t pick up any sound from behind the snowball microphone. Cardioid microphones pick up the sound thatвЂ™s coming in at the front of the microphone.

The CARDIOID pattern вЂ“ best for a single sound source such as a vocalist, guitar etc.

The Blue Snowball mic comes with 3 switchable microphone patterns, Cardioid, Omni and Cardioid Padded: Offering three polar patterns вЂ“ you can set-up your Blue Snowball to work with single sound sources, as well as 360 audio.ДЄ Blue Snowball picking up background noise, is usually because of selecting the wrong microphone pattern, for what youвЂ™re using it for. The Blue Snowball is a versatile microphone and can be used in a multitude of different settings.

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