greetings earthlings today I'm back with a review of a brand new microphone from blue or
is it Logitech I don't even know anymore so today we're looking at this guy the brand new blue Yeti
nano and if you do want to pick this guy up it will set you back around $100 like always I'll
throw some links down below and for the majority of this video I have the microphone connected
directly to my Mac with my input gain set at 15% not gonna do any post-processing but I will boost
it in post so check the doobly-doo to see what I did now let's talk about what comes in the box
you do obviously get the microphone which has a desktop stand already installed you get a 1/4
inch to 5/8 inch microphone stand adapter you get a USB cable you get some documentation as well as
a trial for xsplit and overstream so as far as the build quality of this microphone there's nothing
spectacular about it but you really shouldn't be expecting that for $100 the body does feel
pretty plasticky and cheap it does have a metal mesh grille and it is a bit on the light side on
the front of the microphone you will find a single dial which is the headphone volume control and you
can also press this button to mute the microphone on the back of the microphone you'll find the
polar pattern selection switch to switch between cardioid or omnidirectional and you can also hold
this button for two seconds to turn on or off the zero latency monitoring and then lastly on
the bottom of the microphone you will find the USB port to connect it to your computer you'll
find the three-and-a-half millimeter headphone port which does offer zero latency monitoring as
well as computer playback and in the middle you will find quarter-inch threading to mount it to
a tripod or you can use the provided adapter to mount this to a standard microphone stand now as
far as the specs this thing has a cardioid or omnidirectional polar pattern it has a
frequency response of 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz a sensitivity of around negative 37 decibels a
bit depth of 16 or 24 bit and a sampling rate of 32 to 48 kilohertz now I'm speaking into the
Yeti Nano moving around to 90 degrees to show you the off-axis rejection and coloration we
will continue to 180 degrees to show you how it sounds from the rear we will continue spinning
the microphone around to the secondary 90-degree angle and then we will continue spinning around
and end at the front of the microphone okay right now I'm speaking into the microphone
on the cardioid polar pattern and this is how the audio sounds and now I've switched over to
the omnidirectional polar pattern of the blue yeti nano and this is how the audio sounds now
I'm typing on a keyboard with cherry MX blue Stu see how much of my voice verse how much
of the keyboard it picks up and now throwing the Yeti back in the provided desktop stand and I am
banging on a keyboard with cherry MX blue to show you why I don't recommend setting up the mic like
this now I'm right on top of the microphone to show you the proximity effect about three
inches away from the microphone one foot from the microphone two feet from the microphone now let's
go ahead and test the plosives please bring Pizza pronto please bring Pizza pronto please
bring Pizza pronto okay now I have the blue Yeti nano connected directly to a Windows 10 PC I've
downloaded the blue Sherpa software and my input gain is set at 70 percent on the cardioid polar
pattern and this is how the audio is sounding okay so now I have the Yeti nano and the blue
Yeti level matched on my computer I am currently speaking into the blue Yeti Nano and this is how
it sounds and now I am speaking into the blue Yeti and this is how the audio sounds this is
just so you can hear a comparison between the two microphones and you can determine if you
think this is worth the extra 30 bucks although my understanding exact same capsules they just
took out the third capsule from the Yeti Nano so you don't have stereo or bi-directional okay
so right now you can see that my microphones gain is set at 15% I'll drop this to zero and
slowly increase it so you can hear what kind of noise the blue Yeti nanos preamps make
twenty-five percent
fifty percent
75%
and 100%
okay so right now I'm checking the latency for the blue Yeti nano when it's being recorded at
48 kilohertz with an i/o buffer size of 64 samples we have 9 and 1/2 milliseconds
round-trip or three and 1/2 milliseconds output bump up to 128 we're at 12 and
1/2 milliseconds round-trip or 5 milliseconds output and if we jump up to 256 18 milliseconds
round-trip and 8 milliseconds output now let's see how this thing works for music
what are you waiting on blue you need to make a USB dynamic mic okay so right now we got the new
blue Sherpa software pulled up for the Yeti Nano we've upgraded the firmware of the microphone
and now we'll just do a brief walkthrough of this software so the first thing you will find is the
format of the recording and that allows you to change between 24-bit 48 kilohertz all the way
down to 32 kilohertz for the sake of this test we're just gonna continue recording a 24-bit
48 K then next you'll find the microphone gain which is pretty self-explanatory this allows you
to adjust the gain of the microphone within the software very straightforward then you
have the polar pattern selection switch which allows you to switch between cardioid which is
what we're currently using or we can switch to omnidirectional which I just switched to
and you can tell there's quite a different sound to it and then finally you'll find the playback
settings which controls what you're hearing in the headphones coming out of the blue yeti nano
so what the playback level slider does is adjust the amount of your computer's playback that you're
hearing in your headphones and you can also just go ahead and hit the mute button to completely
mute your computer's playback and then if you do want to turn off the direct monitoring or zero
latency monitoring all you have to do is hold it the polar pattern selection switch on the rear
of the microphone for 2 seconds and it will turn it off or on and that's actually it for the blue
Sherpa software it's pretty straightforward and very easy to use so I know I'm gonna get flack
from the audio files out there but I actually think this microphone is pretty good so in terms
of pros this thing can record and up to 24-bit 48 kilohertz which is excellent to see it also
offers zero latency monitoring and in the software it allows you to adjust your computer's playback
audio level so you can mix between the zero latency monitoring and your computer's audio
but then in terms of cons the preamp on this microphone is pretty noisy it is also somewhat
sibling it picks up quite a bit of ambient noise and to be quite blunt the quarter-inch threading
is just goofy to me I still don't understand why we're seeing an increasing number of microphone
companies throw a try threading on the bottom of their microphones makes no sense so as far
as my overall thoughts on the electric guitar the slightly recessed mid section gives it an almost
scooped sound so I'm not the biggest fan of it there but if you're just using this microphone
for demos or doing YouTube covers I think it would be perfectly fine then the outcome for
the acoustic guitar is the exact same story I think the recessed mid section is really
a detriment to that instrument it kind of removes a little bit of the body and just over focuses on
the lows and the high so I'm not a fan of it for that use case then for singing that's where the
mid section really becomes apparent because when I was playing the acoustic guitar and singing the
vocals almost got lost in that mix so if you're trying to make your vocals pop or sit on top of
a mix in your recording I don't think this is gonna work for you at all but then for spoken
word I actually think this microphone offers a very clean and crisp sound and that cut to the
mids that I've been complaining about so much actually removes a bit of nasally tone which
will appeal to a lot of people so for spoken word I do actually think it will work for some
people but now what I recommend the blue yeti Nano I'll start by saying this if you were planning on
picking up the blue Yeti for solo spoken word don't go ahead and just go with the blue Yeti
Nano because there's no reason to pay the extra money for a bunch of capsules and polar patterns
that you probably shouldn't be using but then on the other hand if you were deliberating between
these two microphones for either music or ASMR I would still direct you to the original blue
Yeti because this is still one of the cheapest ways to get a decent sounding stereo microphone
set and for music at least I would also prefer the more present mids of the original Yeti and
then finally if you were looking at either of these microphones for podcasting or recording
in an environment with a lot of ambient noise I'd suggest you look at a USB dynamic microphone like
the Samson q2u the audio-technica ATR 2100 USB or the 80 2005 USB because those will
ultimately serve you better and they are all XLR and USB so all three of those microphones
would allow you room to grow as your needs expand alright guys well that's going to do it for today
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