I have a macbook pro which is brand new as well as my snowball microphone. i plug in my blue snowball microphone into the usb port and the red LED light appears. However, when i go to click on system preferences and than sound, the snowball does not appear in select a device. Any advice?

SOURCE: My Blue Snowball Microphone doesn't shop up in the

Go to the device manager on your computer, and see that the driver for that mic is turned on or checked.

SOURCE: I've got a new Blue

I had the same problem with my PC and went to http://www.asio4all.com/ where I downloaded and installed the driver and it worked!! I found the site by reading this FAQ (see below) at Blue under Snowball.
(But I still have the same problem with my MAC).

"If you should experience any problems getting the program to recognize the mic, Adobe recommends the following: If the device does not allow you to record, then your microphone is not being detected as a valid input device in Premiere Elements. You can use an open source program called ASIO4ALL, which is a device driver that essentially wraps existing WDM devices, like USB microphones, as ASIO-compatible sound devices. Use the following steps to utilize this tool:

1. Quit Premiere Elements.
2. Visit the following web page and download the latest available version of ASIO4ALL: http://www.asio4all.com/
3. Install the software, and restart the system if asked to do so by the installer.
4. Make certain that your microphone is plugged in.
5. Launch Premiere Elements. Go to the 'Edit->Preferences..>Audio Hardware' menu option. For the Default Device, choose the ASIO4ALL option. Click the ASIO Settings button, then select your microphone from the list of devices, click Exit, and then click OK on the Preferences dialog. Close and then restart Premiere Elements."

Ginko

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• Posted on Mar 21, 2011

SOURCE: Yesterday, when I plugged the

Hi.

Go to Mac audio settings, select and set the input device and the mixer to the same device (your mic),

Set the Mixer/Mux/Lin, line must be set to the be microphone. Ensure that line volume is up.
Check if direct sound is selected in Mac settings, in some case you need to uncheck it.

Let me know in case that does not fix the problem, I will have a look to see if there is any issue that can be related to the Snownball.

SOURCE: I plugged in my blue snowball to windows 7 and i get a "USB not recognized or Device Malfunction" message

the plug where it goes into the mic flip it u have it upside dwn i jus figuered it out