Blue Snowball run in windows 8

[roastchicken]

Hi,

I have a blue snowball microphone that doesn't work with windows 8. According to blue:

Snowballs manufactured after July, 2007 (with serial numbers higher than 76-065000) are Windows 8, Windows 7 and Vista compatible. Snowballs with numbers lower than this are not Windows 8, Windows 7 or Vista compatible.

My serial number is lower than 065000 and that is why it isn't working.

I was wondering:

Is there a way for me to run a virtual xp machine, use that to get audio from the microphone, and then somehow transmit that audio to outside the virtual machine?

 

[manofchalk]

I would look for an external DAC that accepts a Microphone USB input and has a 3.5mm cable out which you can plug into the PC.
Though a powered DAC that goes from USB input to 3.5mm is fairly rare, typically its the other way around, and I bet something like that would be expensive.

Basically any DAC that can then feed an input into the PC would work

As for your software trickery solution, no idea.
My best guess is that its not compatible with Win8 due to a default USB driver incompatability, so plugging into a 3rd party USB controller (so no AMD or Intel chipset, you'l have to check your mobo specs if there are any on 3rd party controllers) may just work, but no guarantees.