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not image quality poor audio quality hello i am Wanderer001 and this is my review of the blue yeti
x microphone this is my second blue yeti microphone in fact i started off with the snowball
microphone and if you're looking for an upgrade from that or just upgrading your audio in general
that's why you're probably here that's what you're looking to find out i will admit i am not super
audiophile and mic expert there are plenty of other youtube videos out there i'm telling you
from the perspective of an everyday user because that's what i am even though i make videos i
don't really rely on my equipment as much as a lot of other people do and i do know that blue
yeti has some mixed feelings amongst people being one that it's a subsidiary of logitech and two
people feel that there are other options out there and yes i will admit there are other options out
there however those options tend to be a little more on the pricier side of things i'm not looking
to spend that kind of money just yet the blue yeti x here is a four capsule array microphone
we'll get into that a little later after we do the walk around of the mic itself the microphone
portion of this is seven inches in height from bottom to top it does come with a stand which
might be a little difficult to see right here based on my filming angle but there is a stand
the stand plus microphone is 11 inches tall now i will say right now bringing the microphone to
its side when you're talking to the microphone you want to make sure that you are vocalizing to the
front here you will see a lot of youtube videos of people using microphones that look similar to this
kind of pointing them at themselves that's not how the yeti x here works i have it facing like this
because that is the proper way for talking to it based on how i'm filming however i will say that
the audio that you're hearing is not from the blue yeti x right now it is from a different microphone
when i actually have audio coming from the blue yeti i will let you know for starters this led
light indicator on the front is actually a way to adjust the gain right from the microphone itself
so if i lower this you can see those led lights lowering i'm actually lowering the gain of the mic
without having to be in a program the green icon there means that it's on however a quick tap mutes
the microphone you no longer hear audio from it and it's got a great visualization knowing that it
is muted i'm going to tap that again to turn the game back on next if you press and hold the center
button it changes so now we've got a headphone icon right there which is a little tricky to see
and then lights on the side what that has done is changed it to adjust headphone volume output
you can have a pair of headphones plugged into the mic itself and you can adjust the volume of that
pressing and holding one more time now we have the microphone icon and the headphone icon both lit up
kind of pink little hard to see in video but what this is is the blend mode it adjusts the amount of
computer audio versus microphone audio that can be heard in the headset and you can adjust this
left or right or have it balanced and that's all done through the mic itself and then a tap
long press again brings you back to your metering notice i have it plugged into a computer to power
it but that's all done through the microphone so if you're really just getting a start and you're
trying to upgrade your audio this microphone leaps and bounds above what you're probably using right
now so we talked about the front knob and what it does and the lighting let's take a look at the
rest of the microphone itself the microphone is pretty much this matte black metal and i like that
it's muted it's subtle it doesn't reflect so if you do have this in a twitch stream it's not going
to take away from you i do notice that it has the accent point there which you can see my lights
over in the corner as well as me hiding behind the camera the grille over the actual microphone
capsule itself well built coming around as we talked about before we have an included stand
the stand itself is really substantial and heavy and if we look at the bottom it has a
kind of rubberized felt so that it sits and doesn't move around so if i put that there
and try and push it around yeah i have to put a little force behind it i like
the fact that they include a stand it's not adjustable like the snowball was however you
don't really need to adjust too much once you get this place you can take the microphone off of here
by unscrewing both sides and then you can mount it to something else speaking of mounting we'll come
to the underside here you have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack for either monitoring the actual
volume levels and noise that you get from the microphone or you can actually listen to desktop
audio through that i actually really do appreciate this because my particular setup for my computer
is mobile and my headphone jack is on the same side that my mouse is so it doesn't leave me a
lot of room to actually have that cable for my headphones however usb which i do have on the
other side of my computer does allow me to hook up the microphone and then my headset to this
which is very helpful on the right hand side here you see a micro usb sadly it is not usb-c
uh they are using slightly older standard but it's more ubiquitous so micro usb right here
and then this center hole right there which you might be wondering you know has a little rubber
bit in there what is this well this is actually so that you can thread the microphone itself to a arm
and not have to use it with the stand it took me a while to figure out what that was because
the microphone itself does not actually come with the threading for this so you will need to have
that either from the arm that you're gonna use or you're gonna have to pick that up separately and
then what we have on our back onto the dial itself because these are going to be your different audio
patterns your modes i like that there's a button that changes them i dislike the placement of the
button and its sensitivity because i have found myself when i move this because i don't have a
stationary setup for my computer when i grab this i tend to press the button and if it's plugged in
while i'm moving it it changes the audio pattern so right now the audio pattern that i have it on
is cardio this is going to be good for if you're standing in front of the microphone and you just
have your vocals coming from a singular direction if we tap on this it brings us over to our next
mode which is our bi-directional mode meaning the audio in front and behind the microphone
are going to be picked up this is good if you're doing an interview and have one person sitting on
one side of the microphone and somebody sitting on the other side of the microphone tapping it
again brings us to our stereo mode which will use the left and right to bring up a realistic sound
from the room that a person might be in so talking the front and then directional sound next we have
omnidirectional which picks up sound around the mic equally from all directions and then we come
back to our cardio now the cardio mode is going to be the mode that most people are going to use this
for because they're going to be in front of the microphone talking to it you may have noticed that
those are all those are all white icons so it can be a little tricky to tell what's what likewise
coming back around to the front that's blue that's red that's green all staying there we
have our metering coloration which may or may not be coming out great in the video but let's say you
don't like that you want to change that maybe you want to actually use some fancy settings
for your blue mic you don't want to just use it as a plug and play device that is where the blue
voice broadcast vocal effects software comes in now you can either download that from the
blue yeti website or if you already use logitech products like i do and have the logitech g hub you
can access those from there so let's take a look at that here we have the blue yeti x microphone
software this is through the logitech g hub however the yeti software itself is very similar
when you first start you are prompted to select your gain input up to a hundred percent and then
tone it down based on your individual audio needs uh right here we have a mic test so this
will allow you to record audio to use in other areas to sample so what we're gonna do is we're
gonna actually do that and then just quickly over here master output level is set for 100 when you
first get it so we're gonna record our mic test mic test one two test test one two sally sells
seashells by the seashore peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers so i have a 10 second
audio clip here which will allow me to if i select test peter piper picked a pack of pickle peppers
mic test 1 2 test test 1 2 sally cell seashells by the seashore peter piper picked a pack of pickled
peppers alright so hopefully you heard that i turned on my desktop audio uh capture for
obs but now i have an audio sample which i can then move over right here to the left-hand panel
and the first half we're on is actually the microphone so here we have our polar pattern right
now i am on cardio but i can move it to stereo omni or bi-directional those are all the options
that are available on the back of the microphone here we have our blue voice option selecting this
will then bring up extra controls and there's a lot of things that you can do and i can now hear
the difference in my headphones as to how my voice sounded without the blue the blue enabled voice
options and again we have our mic test mic test 1-2 test test 1-2 sally sells seashells
by the seashore peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers and right there just by
enabling the blue voice you heard that there was a definite change in the quality and sound of
my mic and from here we can change our input gain we can do equalizers we can do clean signal
like there's a lot of options mic test 1-2 test test 1-2 sally sells seashells by the seashore
peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers and if you wanted to you can really get in here
and be super audio nerd however i'm not that kind of guy i prefer the presets but also
just a plug and play device coming over i'm going to show you effects so here we have our effects
you have again our mic test right here we have our pitch our reverb our ring module but coming
over here we now have effects so right now the effects are off but i can turn on alien and we'll
do a quick test one two test test one two sally celsius so that's an alien you've got crazy voice
there are a lot of different options that you can go through
i'm not going to go through them all but just know you don't need a separate audio program
to do this with the blue yeti you can do all of this with the included software and we're going
to pop down to do split personality because that sounds interesting one two test test one
sally sells seashells
so there you go you've got an idea of some of the options that you can do for effects here we have
nvidia and then nvidia has their own broadcast presets however you'll notice i cannot turn that
on uh even though i do have nvidia installed here uh it may just be that my gpu cannot handle it
because it's an older computer at this point but if we come back to our blue voice just like you
could with the effects you've got different type of broadcaster effects that you can do
you can create your own you also have the ability to browse for more effects and and download them
to the blue yeti software but we're going to quickly pop through a couple of these
and remember these are presets that are going to change all of your options here mic test 1-2 test
test 1-2 sally sells seashells by the seashore peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers
mic test 1-2 test test 1-2 sally sells seashells by the seashore peter piper picked a pack of
pickled peppers mic test 1-2 test test 1-2 sally sells seashells by the seashore and right there
again you've got several different options that you can choose from we're going to move on to
our sampler area which is used to create custom macros or assign directly to keys these are going
to be these are sound effects hypothetically if i come here and we find something like this
you have those built in as well you can create your own and you can import so that's kind of
nice again it's built to be an all-in-one software area next we have our lighting this is pretty cool
all the lighting features that you saw on the blue yeti itself
can be adjusted so here we have our live we can select this and then we have sliders to change the
live coloration of the wheel likewise with mute if we don't like the red that we had for the mute
we can adjust it as we want you also have the ability to do fixed effects or breathing
and what this will allow you to do is actually pick and choose colors let's say you're a twitch
streamer or a youtube person who does youtube live you can have your blue microphone if it's
visible in your shots mirror what you have going with your actual setup which is kind of cool i
appreciate that that's there you've got mode so here are the different modes on the front so you
can choose what color designation they are i do like that because i kind of didn't really like
the coloration i wanted a little more difference so here i can change those just by simply clicking
and then adjusting via these sliders and then again you have fixed breathing
and fixed breathing for our options here metering just like before you can change the metering
to start off hey this is okay this is too much this is way too much which i do like and again
you can change this up if you want and here we have our pattern so they're all white and to me
i kind of wanted a little differentiation the icons can be a little hard to see just because
they're all white so if i wanted to i could change these all to different colors so that i know when
i'm on stereo omni cardio or bi-directional which is a great feature to have for a plug
and play microphone last but not least we have our 3.5 millimeter output and here is our headphone
output range direction and we can enable advanced eq if you want to again not super audio files so
i'm not going to play with that but the fact that it's there is great for you if you want
to make changes to your blue microphone and then we come back to the front here and that concludes
the application portion for the blue yeti x as you saw if you're not just looking for a plug-and-play
option there's lots of different effects that you can use using the software for the yeti x here
now you heard some sound tests i'm going to roll in some actual sound tests for the microphone
to give you an idea of how it sounds keep in mind again not a super professional setup so
don't have sound dampening in the room that i was testing this with just to give you an idea of what
an actual everyday user might sound like using the microphone cardio test vocals from the front
test 1 test two test three cardio test test one test two test three bi-directional test
front of microphone test one test two test three bidirectional tests from the back test one test
two test three omnidirectional test from the front test one test two test three stereo mode
from the front test one test two test three this will be audio recording tests from the blue yeti
microphone cardio mode with the asus rog claymore two keyboard with blue keycaps to see
what the clicking sound sounds like when the mic is positioned in front of me while typing
test one test two test three
and test this will be keyboard test with lower the gain on the microphone and typing
in the background microphone is still in the same position it was before
so it's close to the mic but not right on top of it
and keyboard test hopefully that gave you an idea of what the sound test was like giving you a
better idea of what you can expect from something like this for myself i feel that this was a good
step up from the snowball that i used to have the one issue that i have with something like this
is it is a bit on the expensive side compared to again other options out there or even starter
microphones the one thing that i like about this is this microphone connects to your computer
via usb it does not use an xlr cable which is when you start getting into a lot
of those upper end pricier microphone setups so if you're looking to expand your microphone
quality but you're not yet ready to step up to that xlr cabling the blue yeti x might be what
you're looking for i know it was for me with that being said i have been Wanderer001 if
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