Feb/100
It’s Alive…. ALIVE!!!
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Tonight I brought home a new toy for the podcast. A Blue Yeti: “The Ultimate Professional USB Microphone.” It certainly lives up to it’s name as this is one monster of a microphone. Standing up straight in its stand it measures about 12″. The overall construction is very high quality until you get to the knobs…. which look like they were found in a cereal box. Setting that aside, what really matters is how does it sound?
Sound Test
The Yeti has 3 capsules inside it and 4 usable modes. Omnidirectional, Bidirectional, Stereo, and the single Cardoid. The latter is the mode of choice for podcasting. Now I have used the Blue Snowball in the past and I simply could not get rid of ridiculous room noise and echo and since I do not have a real studio this was a no go for podcasting. Up until now I have been using the USB mic that comes with my Rock Band set to surprisingly good results. Lets see how the Blue Yeti stacks up.
For this sound test I set the Yet to Cardoid mode and put the Gain control at the bottom of the spectrum. I wanted to get up close and personal with this monster. After jury rigging my pop filter onto the stand I recorded the test sample.
Post processing I quickly put it through the same thing i do for all other recordings previously, a combo of EQ, HiPass, LowPass, and out to Levelator to tweak the overall loudness. I am rather pleased with the result. A nice rich sound though I’ll never get rid of the slight reverb from my computer screen thats behind the mic… I’m not regretting my purchase.
What do you think?
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