Gadgetory

hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and welcome to a new series called YouTube gear it's all about gear for YouTube so one of the most common questions that I get personally besides like what phone should I get or what tablet should I get is I want to start making videos what type of gear should I look to to get on camera and start making my own so I've had a series in the past that actually help people kind of sort of get started with making the YouTube channel but this whole series idea is to be able to beat your awesome gear and show cool quality versatile stuff that will actually help you make content now it's not all about the gear that's an important thing to note it's obviously content first the stuff you make videos about is really what matters and that's the whole reason to start a YouTube channel but having quality versatile working gear is actually something that's surprisingly important and I'm a gearhead anyway so it kind of plays to the ability to show off cool tech and things like that so content first but if you have gear that'll help you out that works too alright so this is the first piece of gear that I am featuring in this playlist or series if you don't know what it is I might look a little bit weird this is a microphone it has its own desktop stand this is called the blue Yeti Pro now that it's around Black Friday you'll see microphones and stuff from blue and a bunch of others going from way lower prices I saw this guy this blackout Edition for somewhere around a hundred bucks which is way less than what I pay for it a while ago and this is also sort of like a YouTube classic microphone I was using this microphone full-time like three four even five years ago it showed up in videos I think I made an entire video all about it I think it was a silver version but yeah this thing is tried and true and I feel like it's about time I recommend it so this is what it looks like if you haven't seen a microphone like this before like I said has a built-in stand it articulates to face your mouth exactly and it's got a whole bunch of features that make it a little bit different from a normal mic and that's why it costs me so underneath this cover here it's not just one microphone there are three different microphones facing a bunch of different directions and it's covered here and there's a switch on the back that you can see that I'll allow you to switch between a bunch of different recording patterns for different uses so there's stereo mode there's omnidirectional mode nice good quality switch to switch between them a cardioid mode and a bi-directional cardioid mode we'll just pick up what's directly in front of the microphone so if I'm just talking to it I'm making a video and I want to just record my own voice it'll cancel what's behind the mic and just pick me up I'll give a sound quality test in a second but if you're doing an interview or something and there was someone on the other side of the microphone you could use this mic as well pick up the voice on the other side your own voice but cancel out the sides so you can see how it can be a little bit more versatile than just one mic capsule around the front is a physical mute switch so if you want to meet yourself that's neat and then a headphone volume knob which is because this microphone has a headphone jack at the bottom latency free monitoring of your own audio this is the USB mic I'm going to plug it into the surface book here it lights up this meet button lights up so that's pretty cool have audacity on this machine I use audacity which is a free piece of software and I've used it for like seven years I don't use a dhobi audition or anything fancy audacity just lets me pick the input source take the quality level and then record audio and that's all I need to do so right now right now you should be listening to the quality of the Yeti Pro and I can actually switch the gain if I wanted to change the gain gain up or gain down it seems like the volume is about right and you can obviously not tell the difference between the mic I've been using which is a shotgun microphone right up here made by Sennheiser and this Yeti Pro is pretty clean I mean compared to what you could get in a microphone for a hundred bucks or 120 bucks like five years ago this is a lot better sounding and something you could get for that price this is also on the cardioid pattern it would sound different if I put it in like bi-directional switch it now I'm in bi-directional so you can hear everything behind the microphone you probably won't hear things to the sides of it you can hear my own voices for the sake of this I'm gonna go back to cardioid I really like the the hard switch its quality it's all made of metal the whole thing is metal so there you go guys that's the blue Yeti Pro and that's you tube gear number one now if you have any other suggestions for pieces of youtube gear whether it's lenses or cameras or microphones or accessories basically any piece of gear related to making videos let me know get at me because that's the kind of stuff I want to feature in these future episodes and also every single time I do a youtube gear video whatever I talk about in the video I'm going to be giving away on Twitter follow me on Twitter at mkbhd and within like 24 hours of this video going live there will be a giveaway post where you can pick up this exact microphone that I'm using this video right here and probably get started on YouTube channel of your own so that's been it youtube gears now a thing dope tech is now a thing we're branching out a little bit more hopefully you guys enjoy this kind of stuff and if you do let me know by giving a thumbs up below thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys the next one peace