- Jul 15, 2015
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I have been looking online, and there is another forum on this same problem that has gone unsolved. I have a Blue Snowball USB microphone, that when I got it worked fine, and now all of a sudden it shows up as an "advanced audio device" instead of a blue snowball microphone.
This is a problem for many reasons, mainly that the quality of recordings has dropped, and that my computer recognizes it as speakers as well as a microphone which has caused some problems as well.
At first I thought maybe my cable was faulty, but I just got my hands on a second snowball and microphone set to test that out, and the new snowball works fine with both cables, while the one I am having the issue with still shows up as an advanced audio device regardless of which cable I use.
I have uninstalled the generic "usb advanced audio device" drivers many times, along with restarting my computer. I have done so from device manager, from the properties menu, and from devices and printers. I have tried using the firmware update from blue's website, but because the microphone is not recognized as a blue snowball, the update doesn't do anything. I have tried using the snowball on other computers, all which have the same problem, recognizing it as an advanced audio device rather than a blue snowball. I have even gone into my computers settings and disabled automatic driver installation, and when I did that it just saw the device as "USB audio device" instead of "USB advanced audio device."
My microphone is about two months old, I received it new from amazon, and up until about a week ago, it worked excellently, showed up as a blue snowball, and there were no problems with it. So this problem happened suddenly, and with no explanation. It is not an out of the box problem.
Is there any solution for this? Everywhere online says try plugging the cable in upside down or is addressing different problems, the only place that even has a forum about this problem is this website, but the forum was abandoned with no solution. Literally, there's no documentation of any solution to this despite there being a few others who seem to have the same problem.
Help would be appreciated. Thank you.
This is a problem for many reasons, mainly that the quality of recordings has dropped, and that my computer recognizes it as speakers as well as a microphone which has caused some problems as well.
At first I thought maybe my cable was faulty, but I just got my hands on a second snowball and microphone set to test that out, and the new snowball works fine with both cables, while the one I am having the issue with still shows up as an advanced audio device regardless of which cable I use.
I have uninstalled the generic "usb advanced audio device" drivers many times, along with restarting my computer. I have done so from device manager, from the properties menu, and from devices and printers. I have tried using the firmware update from blue's website, but because the microphone is not recognized as a blue snowball, the update doesn't do anything. I have tried using the snowball on other computers, all which have the same problem, recognizing it as an advanced audio device rather than a blue snowball. I have even gone into my computers settings and disabled automatic driver installation, and when I did that it just saw the device as "USB audio device" instead of "USB advanced audio device."
My microphone is about two months old, I received it new from amazon, and up until about a week ago, it worked excellently, showed up as a blue snowball, and there were no problems with it. So this problem happened suddenly, and with no explanation. It is not an out of the box problem.
Is there any solution for this? Everywhere online says try plugging the cable in upside down or is addressing different problems, the only place that even has a forum about this problem is this website, but the forum was abandoned with no solution. Literally, there's no documentation of any solution to this despite there being a few others who seem to have the same problem.
Help would be appreciated. Thank you.
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