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hey what's going on guys James $0.02 here and I'm gonna answer the question that I have been asked over and over and over again what mic do I recommend for podcasting live streamers and people who want to record audio today we're going to take a look at the legendary blue Yeti all thanks to mass drop you're looking at starting up a stream or a youtube channel or something this is where you kind of want to start actually this is where I started my youtube channel with I think my third video I went out and bought a blue Yeti I still have it actually but we're taking a look at a brand new one right here out of the box sent over by mass drops make sure you guys head on over there sign up it's entirely free link is in the description show huge shout out to master up thanks for sponsoring today's video now I don't get a kickback or anything on any of those sales just want to put that out there this is just a free giving back to the community for you guys now the blue Yeti as you can see it's it's it's not blue that's just the company name but the Yeti is a legendary microphone it has been around for a while and it is definitely one of the go-to microphones if you ask anyone about good audio for YouTube now what makes it really nice is the fact that it is a USB interface mic it's entirely plug and play Windows will pick it up regardless of what version of Windows you're using you can couple it with a free program like audacity which as you can see is running right now and you can be up and running with some amazing quality audio but it's got a lot of different functions on there it's not just a microphone in fact if you take a look at the bottom of this thing it actually has a headphone monitoring jack on there so that you can hear all the audio that you're recording as you record it so you can tell but too much background noise you can tell if there's a terrible hissing of your levels or gains are way too high and it also has standard threading on there for things like a mic boom or a death stand or something so you guys can get a custom mounted up however you want and as I mentioned it is a USB interface so it's got that right the usb-cable plenty long to reach pretty much anywhere on your desk now as you can see here it is also rotatable and it's got a pretty decent stand with rubber feet on the bottom so it's not going to go anywhere and on the back you can see we've got some knobs and dials and things we'll talk about those in a second now one of the things that I think I get asked most common about this mic is how do you set it up to get amazing audio well guys it's actually really simple the way I set mine up on the back as I go just a little bit past halfway on the gain and make sure you are on a cardioid pattern that's the one that looks like an upside-down heart you've got stereo which is left right you've got a circle which is omnidirectional that's where it's going to pick up everything around it equally you've got cardioid which is where it's only going to pick up the sound signatures for what's right directly in front of it and it's going to cancel anything behind it and then you have got interview mode basically that means it's going to pick up equally anything in front of it and anything behind it so if you're trying to do some sort of an interview or something you set this directly between you and your subject at equal distances and you'll get equal audio so kind of like a two channel audio thing you can flatten it and post and get equal sound so that's what makes this microphone so freaking legendary is the fact that it has all of those functions built in most are either going to be a cardioid or an omnidirectional or maybe both very very few microphones at this price point give you all of that now one of the newbie mistakes I see people make with the Yeti is they do this they talk into the top of it well the Yeti is a site address microphone what that means is you want to talk to the label now another thing that makes it really neat especially for streamers is it's got this mute button right here if you touch it to mute you can see it starts flashing that means your mute is active and if you're a solid red that means that you are then recording audio as you can see here with audacity going if we push that in it's flashing now you can see we have flattened out on there we are no longer actually recording any audio if we hit that again now we are recording audio once again you have a control knob on the front here our volume knob to control the monitor so that if you're listening to the the actual microphone you can hear what you're recording as I mentioned earlier but it takes it one step further because the computer will actually recognize the blue Yeti as a sound card so not only will you hear yourself you will also hear your game or your system sounds because you can go right into the system sound settings like I have set up right here and if you go to playback you will actually see oops I'm still in the settings there you will see under playback that the speaker's yeti stereo microphone and you can turn this thing into a sound card store whatever headphones you have plugged into the three-and-a-half millimeter jack on the bottom also becomes your reference sound and speakers and headphones so for streamers that's a huge deal because it means you can hear your game and you can hear yourself so you're not screaming like a lot of streamers do when they put on headphones because of the active noise-cancelling or even just noise isolation built into many headphones you're not gonna be screaming now this wouldn't be much of a microphone test if I didn't actually let you guys hear the microphone now I want to point something out here I'm recording it in audacity right now I'm not going to be doing any post-processing no compression no noise removal exactly as it is in the room right now skunkworks is running we are recording here it's on the desk no shock mount and have a fan running over there blowing at me because I'm fat and I get hot pretty easy with all the lights in here so through the magic of editing let's go ahead and switch over to the Yeti alright guys now I'm talking to you here on the blue Yeti on the cardioid pickup pattern now the blue Yeti is pretty damn legendary if you ask me because they can pick up all sorts of vocal ranges even if you start to get really low like Ahnold and get really into it and very mad and angry to pick it up but as you can hear unfortunately the bass starts to get a little bit peaky a little bit cut off and you start to hit clipping so yeah unfortunately it does not have any sort of built-in um compression in there so you don't or limiter in there so you don't start getting too peaky or as I mentioned clipping so you guys are going to have to do some tuning on there now for my settings I am running the microphone properties in Windows at 70 with the mic gain on the mic just a little bit past halfway as I've already mentioned now the cardioid pickup pattern is good for interviews or excuse me for dialogue like I mentioned if we talk to the back of it it's going to sound a little bit ugly and distant because it turns off that part of the pickup pattern now let's go ahead and check out the interview now as you can see with me talking to the back of it it's going to hear me a lot more clearer it's also going to hear me pretty damn good from the front and from the side it's going to sound quite a bit more muffled now if we pick up the omni what cardioid now we pick up the omnidirectional we can talk all the way around it and it's going to sound the same well with the exception of the handling noise and then you have stereo if I talk to it from the front I'm equally in both of your ears if you're wearing headphones headphone users I'm apologize this is about to get very weird because now I'm in the right side of your head now I'm in the left side of your head now I'm just in your head alright we're back on the cardioid so I figure we will just go ahead and laugh and with one of the cons of this microphone and that is even though it's a big giant thing it does not actually have any sort of shock mount capsule built into it so that means tapping on the desk yeah it picked up every bit of that if you're a gamer or your streamer and you get mad and you bang your desk it's pretty terrible so I highly recommend getting yourself the blue Yeti shock mount for it and putting it on a desk boom or something like that and getting it off your desk these little rubber feet on the bottom don't do crap for in fact if I just put my hand on the microphone you hear that yeah yeah you hear that start to get it start to sound a little bit handily but anyways there you go guys Jays 2 cents taking a look at the blue Yeti from mass drop and as always guys check out the forums the forums are up and running it's actually turning out to be a pretty damn big community we've already got nearly 2,000 people signed up in just a few days and it's actually pretty active I'm happy to see that those forums are a good place for us to grow a community and help each other out in PC tech and all of that goodness so I'm going to go ahead and get on out of here and we're going to get a little bit crazy here we will talk we'll do a little Barry man a little or manat anyway guys see you in the next one