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Blue’s excellent Snowball USB mic is half price - just £40Don’t use your headset’s awful mic for voiceover or streaming, use this.

Don’t use your headset’s awful mic for voiceover or streaming, use this.

a photo of Blue’s Snowball microphone, with a shiny spherical body suspended on three short little metal legs

Get the Blue Microphones Snowball for £40 (was £80)

If you’re playing games with friends, a USB mic can be a nice alternative for headsets that have crummy built-in microphones - something that’s particularly common for wireless headsets, that have to pack in a lot of audio data into a very bandwidth-limited 2.4GHz signal. The result is highly compressed audio, and even expensive wireless headsets struggle to deliver a good-sounding mic. Shifting to a USB mic like the Snowball takes that burden off your headset, resulting in better sound quality.

Using a separate mic also unlocks the door to a wider range of audio options than your standard assortment of gaming headsets, including speakers or headphones that don’t have a built-in mic. For example, I love the Sennheiser HD 598s for playing games and listening to music, but they don’t have a mic - so if I want to talk to friends on Discord, I need to either attach aclip-on microphoneor use a USB mic like the Snowball. The latter is the much more convenient option, as you don’t have to run another cable from your headset to your PC, you can just leave the Snowball plugged in at all times with the cable routed where you can’t see it.

I know this deal is a little out of left field, but I hope it does help someone. I think with good positioning - close to your face, basically - you can get some outstanding results out of the Blue Snowball, and at this historic low price it’s well worth considering.

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And well… that’s all I have to say about that! We’ll see you in just a few more minutes with another deal - and this one with a broader appeal!