It saved me some trouble with my HDMI audio on a dual display and I have seen others getting solutions from it after suggesting it. I have already tried restarting my computer and going into device manager to uninstall the USB port drivers and restarting my computer and they both did not work. It has alot more options than the basic sound settings. I contacted Blue Snowball support and they told me that all Blue Snowballs should work on USB 3.0 ports and that it must be a laptop proble.

That was the only problem I had.Īlso install pavucontrol (as said in comments). It took me awhile to figure out how to set the input volume. Then press the green triangle to play it back. Press the yellow square to stop recording. Press the red button on Audacity and then play some music (or make some noise!). But before you start, use the Zoom Out to increase the display timescale to beyond the time that you expect to record (so that Audacity does not have to redraw the display and possibly drop some audio samples). Then move the Input volume: slider to the far right (full volume). Next, you have to raise the audio input level: Click the speaker icon at the upper right of the desktop screen and select Sound Preferences.|Input|(set the button for Blue Snowball). (actually, you can do all of these and then press OK) |Channels: 1(Mono)|OKĮdit|Preferences.|Recording|Sound Activated Recording|(check the box and set the level to -33db.|OKĮdit|Preferences.|Quality|Default Sample Format: (select 16-bit)|OK In general this should make it work in newer releases (If not it is a regression and should be considered a bug ) )Įdit|Preferences.|Devices|Recording|Device: Blue Snowball. It worked in 10.04 OOTB but you need to adjust some settings.

Blue snowball mic not working