greetings earthlings welcome back to another edition of the vs. series so today we are of
course doing a blue Yeti showdown and comparing the Yeti nano the Yeti original and the Yeti Pro
to see which one is the best and which one you should buy but before we jump into the tests
let's go ahead and talk briefly about the build quality so the Yeti and the Yeti Pro are nearly
identical build qualities except the Yeti Pro does have a nice coating on it they both have
headphone volume controls and microphone mute buttons on the front and a microphone gain dial
as well as polar pattern selection dial on the rear of the microphone the Yeti Nano on
the other hand has a joint headphone volume and microphone mute button on the front and
on the rear it just has a polar pattern selection switch now let's jump into the tests right now I'm
speaking into the new blue Yeti nano which will set you back around 100 dollars this thing only
has a cardioid or omnidirectional polar pattern a frequency response of 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz
a max SPL of 120 decibels a bit depth of 24-bit and a sample rate of up to 48 kilohertz right now
I'm speaking into the original blue Yeti which will set you back around 130 dollars this thing
has a cardioid omnidirectional bi-directional and stereo polar pattern a frequency response
of 20 to 20 kilohertz a max SPL of 120 bits a bit depth of 16 bit and a sampling rate of up
to 48 kilohertz and now I'm speaking into the blue yeti pro which will set you back
around 250 dollars this thing also has a cardioid omnidirectional bi-directional and stereo polar
pattern a frequency response of 20 to 20 kilohertz a max SPL of 120 decibels a bit depth of 24-bit
and a sampling rate up to 192 kilohertz now I'm spinning around the yeti nano to 90 degrees to
show you the off-axis rejection and coloration we are continuing around to 180 degrees to show you
how it sounds from the rear we will continue spinning it around to the secondary 90 degree
angle and then we will spin it around to and at the front now I'm speaking into the front of the
original Yeti moving around to 90 degrees to show you the off-axis coloration and rejection we will
go ahead and move around to 180 degrees to show you how it sounds from the rear continue around
to the secondary ninety degree angle and continue rotating and speaking until we end at the front
okay now I am spinning around the Yeti Pro to 90 degrees to show you the off-axis rejection
and coloration we will continue around to 180 degrees to show you how it sounds from the rear
we will continue spinning the microphone back to the secondary ninety degree angle and continue
spinning until we end at the front now I'm typing on a keyboard with cherry MX blue to see how much
of my voice first how much of the keyboard it picks up Cherry MX blue background noise test
on the original blue Yeti testing the background noise with cherry MX blues on the blue Yeti Pro
right on top of the Yeti Nano to show you the proximity effect right on top of the Yeti to
show you the proximity effect right on top of the Yeti Pro to show you the proximity effect
we may not find out what to do so I'll do my best to show them all to you I hope that this
will show you what the mics are like from blue and the winner of this vs. series is the original blue
Yeti but there are some caveats to that so let's talk about those so the first footnote or side
note here is the only reason that I didn't pick the blue Yeti Pro is because I think 250 dollars
is a bit overpriced given what people typically buy the blue Yeti for which only really requires
a cardioid polar pattern the second caveat is I honestly wouldn't recommend any of these
microphones if you're recording gaming content with a really loud keyboard if you're podcasting
if you're in conference calls or if you record in a really noisy environment or a completely
untreated room I would say don't get any of these microphones and the reason I say that is you would
be served infinitely better with a USB dynamic microphone like the samson q2u or the ATR 2100
USB but if you are dead set on picking up one of these blue Yeti microphones for those applications
I would recommend the blue Yeti Nano but with all of that being said why did I actually select the
blue Yeti and it's because I do think it's the best bang for your buck if you're buying this
microphone for the application that I think it's actually good for which would be music now the
Yeti Nano does sound pretty good but it is lacking a little bit in the mids and the low mid section
in comparison to the blue Yeti and the Yeti Pro and it also does lack the stereo mode which is
insanely useful and fun to use if you're recording any acoustic instruments or if god forbid you're
doing ASMR a oh my god I almost threw up there so in summary out of these three microphones I
do think the Yeti or the Yeti nano or perfectly fine options they'll serve you well depending
on your personal preferences your environment and what you're looking for in your microphone
but if you do any of those things that I mentioned before whether it be podcasting gaming with a loud
keyboard or if you record in a noisy environment I would really urge you to consider looking into
a USB dynamic microphone because they will be a better tool for the job and there it is I'm gonna
wrap up the video there but I do want to hear from you guys in the comments down below you agree with
the conclusion that I came to or do you prefer one of the other two microphones which of these three
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says that's gonna do it for today thank you guys so much for watching I'll see you next time bye