Understanding the Blue Light

When you plug your Hype MiC into your device, chances are you'll see a single blue light, like this:

The blue light indicates that your microphone is in Standby Mode; meaning that your mic is getting power, but it is not communicating with any sort of audio/recording/streaming/telecom software.

Possible causes, and how to fix it:

By far, the most common issue is that no software is OPEN to talk to your Hype MiC

• • A good test for this is to open up your device's sound preferences, and selecting the Hype MiC as an Input Source. This will communicate with your Hype MiC, and should change the light from blue to green.
  • You could also try opening up a popular recording software, such as Garageband, Logic, or Audacity, and setting your microphone as the input source

Bad USB cable is powering on your Mic, but not passing data

• • USB cables pass data & power on 2 separate lines within the cable. 
    • This means that even though your mic may power on, no data is being passed to and from your computer 
      • Since no data is being passed, there is no communication to your microphone to wake it up from standby mode
  • Try a different USB cable; does the issue persist? Make sure you have software open to talk to the mic!

Mac Only: Software doesn't have permissions to access Microphone (Audio Input)

• • On Mac Operating Systems (macOS 10.14 and above), you may have to go into System Preferences > Security > Privacy, and allow applications access to your Microphone (Audio Input)
  • This process is illustrated in the images below:

1. Navigate to your Security & Privacy section, in System Preferences:

2. Click on the Privacy tab, then scroll down to the Microphone section. 

3. Click the lock, enter your system password, and tick all the boxes to the left of software that needs Audio Input access.

For more information on understanding the lights on your HypeMiC, check out the article: What do the lights mean on my Hype MiC?

For a general overview of your Hype MiC's built in functions, check out this great Quickstart video:

Finally, for some light reading and a better understanding of your Hype MiC, check out the Hype MiC User Guide.