Recording Basic Audio

Hello,
I've been using Logic Express 8 for some time now, but only the built-in software instruments.
Now, I'm trying to record a simple audio track, and cannot do it. Cannot even see the signal from my Blue Snowball USB mic. Everything is set up properly in the System Preferences > Sound Panel (Snowball selected, and Input Levels show), as well as in Audio MIDI Setup (Blue Snowball selected).
When the New Track dialog (Audio) is used, the resulting track does not show the Record Enable button. Am I missing something basic?
As a test I tried recording in Audacity and it worked.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

As you're using LE 8, you need to create an aggregate device.
This should help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2648
More details here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11251992&#11251992

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