Vocal buzz with Blue snowball mic

I'm recording vocals into garage band, with the track set for vocals with no effects, and I'm getting a lot of buzz/distortion. This is somewhat replicated in the acoustic guitar as well.
The levels in the track mixer are never clipping, and I've experimented with different input levels on the Mac system preferences, as well as with different differences from the mic.
Is there something I'm missing, like a separate input level by track, or for Garageband in particular?
Or do is the mic broken?

You should contact BlUE about your mic. I have seen reports and reviews stating that the Blue snowball was defective right out of the box.

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panic(cpu 7 caller 0x001A8C8A): Kernel trap at 0x004209d5, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x0000000c, CR3: 0x013fe000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x0ea7c3c0, ECX: 0x1059f4f0, EDX: 0x85ccfb8c
CR2: 0x0000000c, EBP: 0x85ccfb08, ESI: 0x0ea7c3c8, EDI: 0x0ea7c3d0
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0x85ccf8f8 : 0x12b0f7 (0x4581f4 0x85ccf92c 0x133230 0x0)
0x85ccf948 : 0x1a8c8a (0x461720 0x4209d5 0xe 0x460ed0)
0x85ccfa28 : 0x19ece5 (0x85ccfa40 0x4256f6 0x85ccfb08 0x4209d5)
0x85ccfa38 : 0x4209d5 (0xe 0x85cc0048 0x10 0xe920010)
0x85ccfb08 : 0x42028d (0xea7c3c0 0x85ccfb8c 0x0 0x0)
0x85ccfb58 : 0x420c0e (0xea8b700 0x420978 0x85ccfb8c 0x0)
0x85ccfba8 : 0x6055d9 (0xea7c3c0 0x0 0x85ccfc08 0x615b08)
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0x85ccfc68 : 0x86334bde (0x13c56800 0xeed0240 0xf56bff 0x0)
0x85ccfcd8 : 0x86334ddd (0xfbe4400 0x2 0x1 0x14)
0x85ccfcf8 : 0x86335056 (0xfbe4400 0x14 0xf7f4a80 0x7c79d6)
0x85ccfd38 : 0x86335156 (0xfbe4400 0x54 0x0 0xf7f4a80)
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Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio(2.5.4b4)@0x86326000->0x8634cfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x9e4000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.8)@0x5ff000
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.6.4b7)@0x9e4000->0x9fafff
dependency: com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib(1.1)@0x9e1000
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.8)@0x5ff000->0x626fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: GarageBand
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9C7010
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)

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