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BlueMic works on Vista!

I bought a laptop a few weeks back and it was preinstalled with Vista.  Vista was the only supported OS on the laptop (no XP drivers wouldn’t work).  I quickly found out that my Blue Mic Snowball USB mic would not work in Vista.

Since I noticed the mic wouldn’t work with Vista I’ve been looking at Blue update page.  It looks like today I struck gold (or Blue in this case).  It looks like the low gain firmware update seemed to work with Vista.

I followed all of the on-screen instructions, after the download, and everything installed like a champ.  I even ran Cool Edit and ran two mics through (for my podcast) and everything worked OK.  My only complaint is that the low-gain upgrade brings the levels of the mics way down.  Hopefully Blue will certify the high-gain option for Vista soon.

Fri, October 19 2007 » Programming