Behringer B1 vs M-audio vs Blue Snowball microphone comparison.

Behringer B1 vs M-audio vs Blue Snowball microphone comparison.

There is not a real winner in this test since all this microphones performed great they are all 16bit 44.1kHz sampling so the only difference is in microphone capsule and analog circuit.
The Behringer B1 is an XLR microphone and used together with the Alesis Multimix 8 USB mixer that I will review in another video.
I will say the Behringer B1 has the best performance then is the M-audio and last Blue Snowball but they are not that far apart.




I used Ardour a free open source audio recorder to record all microphones at the same time.
If you have multiple USB microphones you need to use alsa_in and alsa_out commands to be able to see this devices in Jack and be able to connect them to individual tracks in Ardour.




I used a screen capture of Ubuntu 11.10 at the end of the video with Terminal, Alsamixer and Jack audio. This are all open source free software.

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• Behringer
• B1
• M-audio
• Blue
• Snowball
• microphone
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• comparison
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• USB
• Producer
• Linux
• Jack
• audio
• Ubuntu
• 11.10
• Alesis
• multimix
• Ardour
• multiple
• cards

[dacads]

Hey dude it's me again xD Can you recommend me a shockmount for the B1?

[electrodacus]

@dacads Did you purchased the B1? Usually it includes a shock mount unless you purchased a used one. The one that come with the microphone is quite good. 

[ExampleGamer]

hey there, would you be willing or know of a tutorial on how to hook up the B1 to your computer, because I'm not sure on how to do it. I have a firewire 410 mixer

[electrodacus]

@ExampleGamer Not sure you have a firewire port on your computer if you have then you just connect the B1 to the mixer XLR connector and then the mixer to the firewire port on your computer. If you do not have a firewire port and is a desktop then you can purchase a firewire card.

You also need to switch on the Phantom power on your mixer for this microphone to work.

Other low cost solution is to buy a USB to XLR cable from eBay for about 15$ if the mixer dose not work.

[ExampleGamer]

@electrodacus i have a firewire port, is it the 4 pin one or the 6 pin you have to use? Also could you go through a firewire to usb adapter and connect it that way?

[electrodacus]

@ExampleGamer You can use the 6pin firewire if you have one on the computer if you only have a 4pin then you will need to use the DC power supply also to power the M-audio mixer since the 4pin firewire dose not provide power.

It will probably not work with a firewire to USB adapter.

If you have just 4 pin firewire on your laptop or desktop just buy a 6pin to 4pin firewire cable and use the included 12V 1A power supply to provide power to M-audio mixer.

[dacads]

@electrodacus Yeah in used condition from a friend, without a shockmount though so I'm looking for one now

[JohnyDMcBride]

GOLLUM!!!!!!

[electrodacus]

@dacads I will suggest the Samson C03U in your case is probably the best USB microphone for your application and if not then next will be the USB version of AT2020.