I have a blue Snowball USB, I remember when I first started using it in GarageBand I had to configure the mic in GarageBand's Preferences. Have you set the mic as the input in GarageBand? (make sure the mic is plugged in, open GarageBand, click on the GarageBand menu, Chose Preferences, Click on the Audio/MIDI from the preferences window tool bar.

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Hello all,
I received a Blue Snowball USB mic (please reserve your criticisms, I know this isn't exactly quality, budget was the main factor here) for Christmas this year intending to use it to start practicing home recording, mostly covers and scratch tracks for original material.
So anyways, when I plugged it in and prepared to record, I noticed the red recording dot was greyed out/white-ish and it wasn't reacting to my talking/tapping. After, messing with some settings, various google searches, making sure Ableton was recognizing it and it was selected in the input options, I finally got it to work by going the in the Audio Preferences>Hardware Setup and switched from my Realtek Audio to the Snowglobe.
SO! My question is will I have to contasntly switch back and forth between hardware settings in order to use this mic in Ableton? Because if that's, the case I cant hear the metronome or rhythm tracks/drums and that's obviously a major issue.

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Also, I've considered reverting to using Audacity for recording, especially guitar covers. Will I run into a similar issues or is that actually a better route to go for just some raw recordings?

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Eventually I'll attempt to use it for environment recording, live sampling, percussive sampling etc. But that's for future endeavors and not related to now.

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Thanks Ableton community!! Hope to be posting and becoming more involved in this community in this new year!