Blue Yetis have been out for ages now and there’s a reason they’re most people’s go to. Yes there may be others on the market offering slightly different things but a blue yeti is always a safe bet. I’m no sound engineer but it serves its purpose very well.

The sound quality is great and it’s a good accessory for streaming!

It is a little on the larger side but other than that, this product is what what you need.

Its a great product once you get to grips with the available settings via G Hub software but update the software after downloading it from the website. The item was sold at a small discount as a damaged box but It was clearly a returned unit and had been repacked poorly picking up a couple of minor marks which is disappointing.

It’s good. Very sensitive. Sometimes too sensitive. I can hear neighbour’s cat 2 doors away on my recordings, when I didn’t even realise was there at the time. The sound quality is very usable. However, side-by-side comparisons with a cheap BM-800 mic (20) shows that it is not 5 times better. I guess you are paying for brand, the perceived build quality, and the way it looks, if you like that sort of thing. Also bear in mind, this thing is *big*. If you put it in front of your monitor, you are going to block a lot of it out. So it has to stay to the side of the monitor, which is not the optimal position for voice capture. Nevertheless, it is a keeper.

Firstly, I want to mention that I have had this microphone for over 5 years now. It was cheaper back then, which is a telling sign of how great this product is and how much of a standout option it is even in 2017. Either way, I think I’ve had this product long enough to give a review so here goes.

This was the first and only microphone I’ve ever purchased and why it continues to be the only one is because of how GOOD it is. The durability of this thing is nothing short of spectacular. I went through a few years of university with it being thrown around and there has been no noticeable damage to the build whatsoever. It is built to last and it can serve as your main microphone for anything, from taking voice calls to making quality audio for YouTube, livestreaming, whatever you want that requires the recording of sound.

Now, I didn’t truly appreciate this beauty until I started livestreaming games. I had bought it for the intention of making YouTube videos, but it’s just as good for livestreaming. It’s extremely easy to setup, a true plug and play experience. It starts to load the drivers to run this bad boy as soon as you plug it in, and that’s it!

I’m not the world expert on audio, but it produces a crisp sound that is close as it gets to the real thing. This mic is a bang for buck product and a great starter for a novice (like I was all those years ago)

An excellent Microphone and extremely well built for the price.
Good weight means it cannot be easily knocked over and the guide book has all the information you need to set it up.
The best features of this microphone is its multiple settings to choose how to mic responds to you based on where it is positioned. The optional screw fitting on the bottom make it compatible with any microphone stand which was not something i expected being a full unit. The headphone pass through also is a convenient feature as it prees up space and wires from behind me PC and puts it in an easily accessible area.
Some things i did not like are the cable. Although long and sturdy being placed at the bottom limits the swivel function of them mic unless you remove it and replace it. The dial to switch to the different mic modes is extremely stiff and required quite a bit of force to change the settings, to do this in mid recording would generate a huge amount of noise the microphone would pick up an and disturb any recording so i would call it a fixed mode with optional settings. I would hope that a microphone of this quality came with some easy to use Audio software to control most of its features on screen rather then with dials and switches but i was a little disappointed to find out it came with no such thing.
Overall 4/5 stars.

To summarize i was happy with the purchase but a few things could be tweaked to make it that much better without adding additional cost.

So I was faced with a tough decision: the Blue Yeti or the Samson Meteor. After having watched several YouTube reviews of both products, I was still undecided, as they both seemed excellent and I was only looking to record my own voice, not music. They both had a 3.5mm headset connection, they both had a headphones volume dial, but was the Yeti worth that extra 42?

I still don’t know! But I chose the Yeti over the Meteor because of the gain dial. When I was going through my PC’s 3.5mm mic jack, Windows 7 controlled the gain of the mic through its ridiculous “microphone boost” feature. You get a bright hiss in the background that has to be removed using software, leaving a tinny voice behind after stripping it. The whole point of buying a USB mic was to cut out the middle man and have a pure, digital sound capture fed directly to my hard disk. For me, the gain control on the back is a huge part of that. I can choose exactly how sensitive it is and decide how close I want to sit, all from the mic itself. I am so happy I have this ability, it makes the mic for me.

Make no mistake, though, the Blue Yeti is HUGE and very heavy, so if portability is a big factor for you, the Samson Meteor might be a better compromise. But if you’re after a rock solid, desk-mounted, crystal clear USB mic, that has built-in gain control and directional pickup, I recommend the Yeti. The headphone jack is also recognized by Windows as a pair of USB speakers (I didn’t know such a thing existed) and you can feed all your PC’s audio through the mic, if you like, giving you a handy desk-mounted headphone jack and volume control.

Oh, and I didn’t buy a pop filter, but if you’re going to be closer than 10cm to the mic, you need one. It depends on how loud your voice is and how far away you’re sitting, but for that extra lush, deep bass-sound to your voice, you’ll have to get in close and unless you’re happy speaking off to one side, you’re going to need the filter.

I wanted to get a good quality microphone for recording guitar and vocals for home music production and this has served perfectly so far! It also works great with Skype which is a bonus.

The mic turned up quickly and well packaged, the box has a clean modern design and the inside housed the mic in shaped polystyrene so it wasn’t moving anywhere in transit. The microphone itself comes attached to a weighted stand which feels very solid (pictured). The Yeti stand screws on at the sides but can be detached so the mic can be screwed onto a standard mic stand from underneath or placed in a holder.

There is a mute button, and a monitor volume knob on the front for when you want to listen to your input directly (3.5mm jack socket underneath) very useful if you find input delay through your DAW an issue. On the back there is an input gain knob and the 4 way selector for the various directional settings. The microhphone’s build quality is solid, the knobs feel a bit grindy as you turn them, although that isn’t an issue unless you plan on changing the input volume mid recording. The supplied USB cable is thick and a good length for home recording.

I use this microphone with my XP desktop and my Win7 laptop and they both accepted and installed the mic within seconds of plugging it in problem free. The only thing you should be aware of is your OS might try to default to using the microphone’s output instead of your speakers. You’ll need to go into you computers sound settings and tell it to default back to your speakers.

Other than that, the sound quality is beautiful from this thing, it’s very sensitive and the multiple diaphragms also allow for 3D sound recording which is incredibly fun to play around with and listen to.

All round great microphone, I highly recommend it to anyone!