HI!
Guys I needed a USB microphone to use with my macbook to add narration to some of my
vlogs and videos when I was not talking to camera so I've picked up a Blue Yeti from
the Apple store so lets take a look at it OK that introduction was recorded using a
Canon powershot S120 camera and my voice you could hear was using the internal microphone
of the camera but everything else this entire narration has been recorded using the Blue
Yeti microphone OK in this film first of all we will unbox
the microphone and show you exactly what you get in the box it is a USB microphone so compatible
with both PC and mac so I will run through setting it up on both a PC and a Mac
This microphone has four recording modes so we will look at that and I will give you an
example of recordings in each mode right now it is set to cardoid mode
until recently I was doing my video editing on a PC and I had a very cheap microphone
I was using but it had a microphone jack on it and the MacBook I'am now using doesn't
have a microphone jack you have to use a USB microphone the MacBook does actually have
a built in microphone in the left hand speaker but it is quite awkward talking into the left
hand speaker my last microphone was a pretty inexpensive one I bought from Amazon called
the trust stars microphone and I remember when I first got it it took an incredible
amount of setting up playing with the PC sound levels and even then once it was set up really
adjusting your voice to get any kind of decent results with it its not really fair to compare
the two microphones because the Blue Yeti costs ten times as much but I was pleasantly
surprised that when I plugged the Blue Yeti into my Mac it worked straight away I plugged
it into a PC and it worked straight away this is how its sounded out of the box I still
need to go into my sound settings and make some adjustments and also play with the gain
on the back and get used to how close and how loud I need to speak into the microphone
its actually bigger and heavier than I had imagined its twenty nine and a half centimetres
high fully extended and weighs 1.55kg so it comes on a nice solid table base but it also
has a threaded mic stand mount in the bottom of the microphone itself so you can remove
it from the stand and put it on your own mount OK on the front of the microphone you have
two controls the mute button and a volume control which is for the headphones only and
on the back of the microphone you have the mic gain control and four position switch
to select the recording mode of the microphone Ok on the button of the microphone there we
have the USB connection on the left the threaded mic stand mount and a headphone jack as I
said earlier it has four recording modes and this is cardoid mode which is the most commonly
used mode and can be useful in most situations if your recording vocals podcasts or a voice
over cardoid is most likely your best choice when recording in cardoid it is sound directly
in front of the microphone is picked up while the sound at the rear and sides of the microphone
is not therefore you will want to arrange the source directly in front of the microphone
cardoid will deliver the most direct rich sound but will not offer much airiness or
presence as the other recording modes can this is stereo mode stereo mode is great for
capturing a realistic stereo image this is omni directional which means that the microphone
picks up sound equally from all directions and is perfect for recording a group of musicians
or perhaps a podcast and this is bidirectional which means that the microphone picks up sound
from the front and rear which is perfect for recording an interview with two or more guests
OK lets start by showing you how you set this up on a Mac and then once we are done I'll
show you how you set it up on a PC OK so first of all you obviously need to plug the Blue
Yeti microphone in via the USB cable then once it is plugged in you go to system preferences
then once in system preferences sound you then need to change the input to the Yeti
Blue microphone you can then adjust the levels that will probably need a little bit of playing
around with if you want to listen to your own voice via headphones you need to change
the output to the Yeti stereo microphone we are not doing that so I'll turn it back to
the internal speakers Ok so now let me show you how you set it up on a PCfirst of all
obviously you need to connect it via USB then you need to go into your settings once in
settings select the control panel then from the control panel you to go into hardware
and sound then sound then once in sound recording and you'll be able to select the Blue Yeti
microphone once it is selected you can change its properties so you'll be able to adjust
the levels and even listen to it OK so lets just take a closer look at the switches here
on the front once it is plugged in the flashing light on the mute button means its in mute
if you hold it down the solid red light means you are recording hold it again and you can
switch back to mute on the rear here we have the gain to adjust your recording volume and
this is the recording mode switch so you can select between the four different recording
modes I guess I should say at this point I'am very happy with the microphone if your considering
buying one I would thoroughly recommend it so thanks for watching if you found this video
useful don't forget to click the like button below and if you would like to see more the
subscribe button