Gain is how loud an input signal is before it’s processed. For a better understanding of these pickup patterns, read our guide on microphone polar patterns.The other three patterns pick up signals from different directions, making them more prone to background noise and room echo. That’ll clean up your audio and reduce the amount of room noise it receives. The cardioid pattern makes it so the Yeti only picks up sound directly in front of it. If you’re a solo podcaster or streamer, you only need the cardioid pickup pattern.

But I’m willing to bet that 99% of people using this microphone will never need them all. The four switchable pickup patterns are one of the Yeti’s biggest selling points. This ensures that it properly picks up your voice. When you use it, talk into the front side with the logo facing toward you. But the Blue Yeti is a side-address microphone, meaning it picks up sound from the sides (duh). Understandably, it looks like you should talk into the top just fine. Whatever you do, DO NOT speak into the top of the Blue Yeti. One of the most common mistakes people make when using the Yeti is talking into the top. These tips work just as well for the Yeti X and Yeti Nano) 1. Thankfully, there are some easy solutions to making it sound better. The Blue Yeti’s design makes it extremely prone to user error. But try as you might, you can’t get the professional sound you were looking for when you first bought this microphone.īut it’s not necessarily your fault. The mic was released in 2010.Many people buy the Blue Yeti with the promise of clean, studio-quality vocals. The Yeti Pro will begin shipping in February, 2010.

The base of the mic body incorporates a threaded stand mount for studio use. The mic includes a yoke-mount desk stand, which can be removed. All the output jacks can be found on the bottom of the microphone body:Īccording to BLUE, the Yeti Pro contains separate digital and analog circuit boards in order to “maintain the integrity of the analog and digital signal paths.” Unlike the original Yeti, the Pro also provides an analog output, via a 5-pin XLR jack and included breakout cable, for studio use.

Mute button - mutes the mic output (presumably both analog and digital).

There are four switches on the microphone: Note that all four patterns are relative to the front (logo side) of the mic body. The output of these three capsules is internally matrixed to produce any of the following selectable polar patterns: One faces forward the remaining two form a 90° X-Y array facing backwards. The mic’s capsule array employs three 14mm condensers. The Yeti Pro is one of fewer than a dozen USB mics with 24-bit digital output. (Note that the mic can be set for all common sampling rates between 22kHz–192kHz.) This makes the Yeti Pro the highest-resolution USB microphone on the market. The onboard ADC is capable of 24 bit, 192 kHz resolution. Unlike the original, the Yeti Pro has both analog and digital output further, the digital converter has been upgraded. Like the original, it uses an array of three small-diaphragm capsules to produce three mono and one stereo polar pattern. The Yeti Pro is a revised version of Blue Microphones’ popular Yeti USB condenser microphone. Blue Microphones Yeti Pro Multi-Pattern Condenser Stereo Microphone

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