If you want to learn how to make your Blue Yeti go from "sounding like this" "to sounding
like this!"
using only free software, then you've come to the right video.
I'm Pete from the Gaming Careers YouTube channel, where we have videos explaining everything
you need to do to grow your gaming passion into your profession and today I'm going to
be talking you through all the settings and software that you need to make your blue microphone
sound as professional and production ready as possible.
So in this video, we're only going to be using free software.
If however you are looking for a guide that uses Adobe Audition CC to improve the quality
of your microphone, I have got a guide on that as well which I'll link up in the card
above as well as in the description below where I'll be putting all the links for this
video today.
Let's get into it.
The programs that we are going to be using today will actually adapt the sound of your
microphone on the fly so you can sound that way whichever program you're using on your
computer be it streaming with OBS or recording voiceovers with something like Audacity or
even talking to somebody over VOIP software such as Skype or Teamspeak.
The 2 programs are both made by the same company, I company called VB-Audio and if you look
in the description of this video, I've got links to the 2 pieces of software as well
as my settings so I need you to go down to the description and click all 3 links and
you should be taken firstly to a page looking something like this.
We'll start by downloading the Virtual Audio Cable software so this page, you scroll down
until you see the orange button and just click Download.
The second link for Voicemeeter is the exact same process, keep scrolling down until you
see the orange download button.
You can choose to download it as a zip or exe, I'm going to do the zip.
Once you've finished downloading these 2 files, you should have 2 zipped folders, mine save
in my downloads and I'm just going to extract them here using 7zip, you can use whichever
extraction software you like to.
Once they're unzipped you should have 2 folders, one for VBCABLE and one for Voicemeeter.
We are going to start with the driver so double click and open up the folder and you should
see these 2 files down here, VBCABLE_Setup and VB_CABLE_Setup_x64.
Now as some of you might have guessed, this is depending on if you have a 32-bit or 64-bit
operating system.
If you're not sure which type of operating system you have, you can just right click
the start menu, go to system and it should tell you just there which one you have installed.
You can see here I have a 64-bit operating system installed.
That means that I am going to be installing this file, if you have a 32-bit operating
system you want to be installing this file.
Either way make sure you right click and "run as administrator".
A box will popup asking you to Install the Driver just click Install Driver, and once
that's done you should get a little popup just saying "Installation Complete and Successful,
You might reboot your system to finalize installation".
Just click OK we are going to reboot after we have installed both pieces of software.
It will also pop up a new window just thanking you for installing their product.
If you go back to your extracted zip folders and find the voicemeeter folder and do the
exact same thing, right click and "run as administrator".
You'll get a similar looking box open up, just click Install.
Once that's installed you'll get a similar popup just telling you that you need to reboot
your system which we will go ahead and do in a second.
You can click OK, it will also open up another webpage thanking you for Installation.
Let's now restart our system so that the driver and software install properly.
OK, welcome back, we just restarted our system to complete the installation of both programs.
Now we can start the Voicemeeter application so if you search in your start menu for "Voicemeeter"
you should see it open up.
Now don't worry too much if your Voicemeeter application doesn't look exactly like this
straight away this is because it's restored my settings because I've already had the application
installed.
But we'll get it looking just like this in just a few seconds.
The first thing we are going to do is load the settings that you downloaded from this
video's description, so wherever you saved the settings, go to Menu -> Load Settings,
locate the file and click open.
Now it should start to look a little bit more like what I've got in front of me but maybe
these faders aren't going to be moving yet.
That's just because we haven't set our Hardware Input and Hardware Output yet.
To set your microphone input, you come up here to Hardware Input and click the little
down arrow next to the 1.
Here is where you should be setting your Blue Yeti microphone.
Now usually between the brackets it will say "Blue Yeti" for your microphone, for some
reason on Windows mine doesn't seem to actually tell me it's the Blue Yeti but I know that
it is this USB Audio Class 1.0.
Yours should say Blue Yeti though and we'll move onto Hardware Output.
Where it says "A1" here, on the down arrow we are going to click and this is where we
want to be setting the "VB Audio Virtual Cable", make sure you find that one and select it
and now the bars should be moving around with your voice.
If you want to play around with the actual compressor effects that Voicemeeter applies
to your voice, you want to be moving this little red box around the graph here.
This basically changes the compressor effect that Voicemeeter puts onto your voice, so
mine is down here in the bottom left this is just adding a bit of bass and making it
sound a little bit more podcast-y but feel free to play around and choose the sound that
suits you best.
Now at this stage it's going to be really important for you to understand that whenever
you want these effects to be applied to your microphone you need to have voicemeeter running.
So if you want to set it to start when Windows starts, that's quite a good idea.
I just run mine whenever I know I'm going to be using my microphone so if I'm about
to stream with OBS or XSplit or if I'm recording a voiceover or even if I'm talking on Teamspeak
and I want to have this really good sounding microphone, I'll start the Voicemeeter application.
The second thing you really need to understand is that whichever application you are using
your microphone in (this could be a game or again in OBS or Skype or any program where
you are going to be using your microphone, you need to make sure that the microphone
input is actually set to voicemeeter output not to your Blue Yeti.
To demonstrate this I'm going to open up Audacity.
If we go up to the settings here where we are choosing our microphone input you can
see I have both the option of having our Voicemeeter Output as well as my Blue Yeti microphone.
If I just select the Blue Yeti microphone here we're not going to be applying the voicemeeter
effects, so you need to be selecting the "Voicemeeter Output" to be getting the effects from the
program.
I'm going to demonstrate the difference between both of these sounds now for you.
So we're going to start with just the Blue Yeti and no voicemeeter application.
And now I'll record using voicemeeter.
Let's listen to these back.
"This is how my mic sounds without Voicemeeter running" "And this is how my mic sounds with
Voicemeeter running".
Hopefully you can hear the difference between those 2 and you can play around with the Voicemeeter
settings to really make sure you're getting the sound out of it that you want.
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