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are you someone who wants to get into recording and you don't know which microphone to use well Blue Microphones sent in their Yeti boat the silver and black out version and today I'm going to be comparing them against all the other microphones that I use here on the channel so it's gonna be a very intense showdown but before we get into this comparison I will preface by saying all the microphones that are going to be featured in the comparison are in a different league compared to you very cheap $5 microphones here's what a $5 microphone will sound like you could probably hear the difference already that all the microphones in today's comparison will be in a different league - a really dirt cheap microphone like this one that I'm using right here so with that aside let's take a look at the blue Yeti and see how it fares welcome back to tokyo city we have four different microphones up for comparison here today first of all the level ii microphone which i use in all my normal regular videos this is the micro lab by H&M very good microphone if you're into recording directly into your camera then of course we've got the blue yeti microphone which comes in at 119 us currently or you can pick it up in australia for 169 australian dollars then we also have the V 67 which is going through a compressor the U a 25 X this is my choice will currently my choice for streaming when I do streams for you guys and then lastly we have the audio technica bhp s one fantastic microphone if you've got a lot of background noise since it is a dynamic it will cancel out a lot of background noise as opposed to the other three microphones that I'm using here today they are condensers so they will pick up a lot more background noise but with that aside let's get that comparison underway good morning evening or night time depending on where you are around the world this is what the blue yeti microphone will sound like just straight out of the box no settings configured at all except I have changed it to the cardioid pattern so this is the standard pattern talking about 10 centimetres away from the microphone so let's switch over to the other three modes on this microphone so here's what the omnidirectional setting will sound like this is a mode that's essentially meant to pick up everything in the room it's mainly not a good setting for streaming now the blue Yeti also features a mode called stereo this is what it will sound like talking at the same distance and the last mode that the yeti features is bi-directional this is great if you've got two people on either side of the microphone doing an interview for example me on this side talking the way I am and you've got someone else on the other side of the microphone talking like this next up is the MX LV 67 this is a microphone that I use for the majority of my live streams it's going through the you a 25 X at a roll and this has also got a compressor built on board next up on the list is the audio technica BP do you even H Pro s1 that this is a headset that I took a look at in a vlog that I did earlier and it's essentially a dynamic microphone and it's going through that same edirol you a 25 X so this is what this will sound like so now here's the level ii microphone that i use for all my recordings on my main videos on the channel so this is a good little comparison because i'm sitting in the exact same position as i am with all the other microphones so there's a comparison done for you guys i'll let your ears be the judge I don't want to introduce any bias but I will give my opinion on the matter and I think that the V 67 was the deepest or warmest microphone out of the four I thought the audio technica of course being a dynamic was a little bit less warm than the other three microphones the blue Yeti was right in the middle is actually a little bit closer to the warmer side so it's got a fantastic sound out of the box and now this is where things get very tricky with audio because what sounds good to me might not sound good to you I think for me streaming personally the V 67 really gives that broadcaster feel it just is an awesome microphone running through that you a 25 X that I've got of course the blue Yeti will probably be better for a lot of other people's voices especially if you've got a deeper voice than I do so I absolutely love the sound coming out of the blue Yeti it's an all-in-one package USB powered you get a three-meter included cable you don't have to mess around with any other settings you just plug this thing in you've even got that USB headphone port so you can bypass your onboard audio you can completely disable it if you want to you won't need a sound card anymore and you'll get fantastic audio both recording into the ADC and listening out via the DAC now the microphone itself it comes in two 1.4 kilograms in ways pretty much exactly the same as the V 67 on that stand that I chose for us so very nice weight very solid all-metal construction to the Yeti itself you get the mute button on the front as well which you'll instantly mute your microphone great if you're streaming got the volume control in the front for the audio and on the back you've got the gain control which on this comparison I did set very low so it does have a lot of extra power at its disposal to kill those four different modes as well which is labeled very easily on the box so you can identify which pattern will be good for you you've got um need errection all you've got stereo bi-directional and also cardioid so to be great for people who also want to produce music and not just broadcast or do voiceovers now of course are there any weaknesses with the blue Yeti microphone well going from top to bottom I really don't see anything that I don't like about this microphone the black version I had here for some reason had the logo upside down I don't know if that's just blue Yeti trying to crack a joke with me being down in Australia but well played because I do get to keep the black one and I have to send the silver one back so that was kind of funny to see that and on the bottom of the stand you also get grips as well so it will grip any surface really well and of course the simplicity and use of Eastwood this microphone is sure to win a lot of people over one thing that I forgot to touch on as well with the V 67 versus marked friend they did sound pretty similar however I thought the V 67 was introducing a little bit of more bass I noticed the subwoofer when I listened back on my Z 906 it was introducing a bit of bass and that was starting to shake my desk so as I said before the V 67 was a very deep tone the Yeti was a very balanced condenser microphone I absolutely loved what was coming out of this thing for 119 us currently 169 AUD it's a really nice microphone also another thing that I'll talk about in this review that's quickly I haven't really talked about in the past with the channel is acoustic geometry so if you get this microphone or you get any other microphone and it sounds terrible to what the person in the review has then you might want to look at the actual geometry in your room of how the sound is bouncing off the walls as you saw behind me here I did have sound tiles so I did have a set up that is good initially for recording audio if you guys have seen my studio creation vlogs you'll know when I just had the concrete walls in this room I had to actually step outside and do my audio recording because the reflections were just so bad so I will put a link in the description below for you guys where you can just see the differences with acoustic geometry and it's a really good eye-opener video in my opinion if you're just getting into professional recordings and that's about it really with this microphone I actually didn't mention it's a 14 millimeter capsule as well and it does have a threaded mount on the bottom of the microphone so if you wish to use a different stand then you can remove it from this stand and plug it on to a different custom stand if you wish to there's also a lot of different colours available for some reason I was really loving the black and red themed microphone I think that would go well on the streaming desk so I actually love to try that out perhaps blue Yeti can swap me the black one for the black and red one anyway guys I hope you enjoyed today's comparison if you did then be sure to hit that like button let me know in the description below which microphone you liked best out of the four and also why or perhaps you might have liked the five dollar microphone I don't know but I look forward to catching you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye