well hello there and greetings earthlings today i am back with a review of another affordable
blue yeti clone this time from behringer that microphone being the behringer bigfoot get it
bigfoot yeti bigfoot yeti you get it if you are interested in this microphone it will cost you
around eighty dollars to one hundred dollars depending on when you buy it i will throw some
links down below and for this review i have the microphones gain set to 10 o'clock and the gain
on my mac is set to around 50 percent i will not do any kind of post processing but i may boost it
in post so check the dooblydoo to see what i didly did and now let's talk about what comes in the box
you of course are going to get the microphone it comes on this pre-installed microphone desktop
stand you will get a usb cable to connect the microphone to your computer you'll get a 5
8 to 3 8 inch microphone stand adapter a quick start guide and a sticker
then as far as the build quality it feels perfectly sufficient it does have a metal
body that is coated in this bluish blackish paint it also has a metal grille the desktop
stand is made all out of metal and it feels very substantial the dials on this are all extremely
wobbly and loose feeling and if it does matter to you this is made in china on the front of the
microphone you will find a microphone mute button as well as a headphone volume control on the rear
of the microphone you will find the microphone gain control as well as the polar pattern
selection switch to switch between all four polar patterns and on the bottom you will find the
usb port to connect this to your computer a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which does offer zero
latency monitoring and a 5 8 inch threading so you can mount this to a standard microphone stand
then as far as the specs on this thing it has a stereo omnidirectional cardioid and bi-directional
polar pattern it has a frequency response of 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz a max spl of 120 decibels
a bit depth of only 16 bit and a sample rate of up to 48 kilohertz now we're going to go ahead
and do a quick walkthrough of all of the polar patterns first we are on the stereo i will go
ahead and rotate around to 90 degrees here's what one side of it sounds like continuing around to
180 degrees from the microphone here is the rear of the mic continuing around to the second 90
degree angle here i am in your other ear hole and then i will rotate and end at the front of
the microphone that is the stereo polar pattern setting now i am on the omnidirectional polar
pattern i will go ahead and rotate around and you should not hear any significant change in the tone
as we rotate all the way around the microphone now we are back at the front now i am on the
cardioid polar pattern i am at the front of the mic going ahead and rotating around to 90 degrees
here's what it sounds like from the side continuing around the microphone to 180
degrees here is from the rear then we will rotate around to the second 90 degree angle
and then rotate and end at the front of the microphone on the cardioid polar pattern and
lastly we are on the figure eight polar pattern which means it picks up in the front and the rear
we will rotate around to 90 degrees which should be very very dead and quiet continuing around
to 180 degrees another lobe of sensitivity here continuing around to the second 90 degree angle
another dead and null area and then rotating and ending at the front of the microphone on the
figure eight polar pattern now let's see how well this thing does at rejecting plosives
please bring pizza pronto please bring pizza pronto please bring pizza pronto now i am
right on top of the microphone to demonstrate the proximity effect on this thing about three inches
off of the microphone with a pointed to the corner of my mouth and here is how the audio sounds about
one foot away from the microphone two feet away from the microphone and about four feet away from
the microphone now i am typing on a keyboard with gatoron blue switches to see how much of my voice
verse how much of the keyboard it picks up and for you elite gamers now i am typing on the sad w keys
here is how the microphone sounds in a well-treated room and here is how the
microphone sounds on the cardioid polar pattern in a completely untreated room
now i want to demonstrate why i don't typically recommend using the provided
desktop stand i did increase the gain to about one o'clock on the microphone
i have set the mic directly in front of me about a foot and a half away from my mouth i will go
ahead and tap my desk so you can hear how much of that noise it picks up i will go ahead and type
on my keyboard that's how much of that it picks up and you can hear how it sounds on my voice
and here is how the microphone sounds on a boom arm a little bit farther away from the desk the
keyboard and closer to my mouth i'll go ahead and tap the desk and type on the keyboard now i want
to demonstrate what kind of noise the mute button on the microphone makes when you engage it so i
will go ahead and continue talking and press that button to mute the microphone continuing to talk
to unmute the microphone and here's how it sounds again i will then i will go ahead and
unmute it and there you go now i just want to see how well this microphone does it rejecting
bumps of a boom arm or a desk so i'll go ahead tap the desk quite heavily and i'll tap the boom arm
now i am almost certain that somebody is going to get this microphone and be tempted to speak into
the top of it because it does kind of look like it might be a top address or end address microphone i
want to take the time and say do not do this this is not an end address or top address microphone
this is a side address microphone you want to speak into the side that has the behringer logo on
it speak right into the grill that's the correct side to speak into not the top top bad side good
now i want to do a very quick comparison between the behringer bigfoot and a couple
of other microphones on the market mainly yetis and i just want to see how this stacks up against
the competition first we'll start on the behringer bigfoot the gain on the microphone is now set at
11 o'clock gain on the computer is still set at 50 percent six inches off and no post processing
check the lower third to see how much i boost each of these microphones in post
and here's how it sounds we'll start on the blue yeti nano which goes for about 100
i am on the cardioid polar pattern six inches off my gain is set at 25 and here is how the 100
nano version of the yeti sounds compared to the behringer or bearinger bigfoot let's jump back to
the bigfoot we are back on the behringer bigfoot on the cardioid polar pattern and here is how
the microphone sounds let's go to another one and compare it to that now i am speaking into the rode
nt usb mini this is a 100 usb condenser microphone just a cardioid polar pattern six inches off
gain is set at around 50 percent and here is how this sounds compared to the behringer bigfoot
let's jump back to the bigfoot and do a couple more comparisons we are back on the behringer
bigfoot again for another calend plunzer a palette cleanser and here is how this microphone sounds
let's jump to another one and compare it to that now i am on the classic blue yeti gain
on the microphone is set at around 10 30. gain on the computer is set just above 50 percent
six inches off and this goes for around 90 to 130 dollars depending on when you buy it
you can frequently get it on sale for 90 bucks but currently it is 130 and here is how the
original classic blue yeti that the bigfoot is copying sounds like compared to the copy of this
thing i don't know if that made any sense let's jump back to the behringer and here we are back
on the bigfoot again this is the last comparison we are doing we're not doing too many today but
here is how this sounds let's jump to the last mic and do that comparison and lastly i am on
the blue yeti x which goes for about one hundred and seventy dollars i am on the cardioid polar
pattern gain on the microphone again is set at around ten o'clock gain on the computer is set
at around sixty six percent six inches off and here is how the most expensive microphone sounds
in the lineup compared to the most affordable microphone in the lineup let me know in the
comments down below which of these microphones did you like the best did you like the yeti x
the yeti nano the classic yeti the nt usb mini or the cheap bearinger behringer bigfoot let me
know in the comments down below next as far as latency with the sample rate set at 48 kilohertz
the i o buffer size is 64 samples we have an eight and a half millisecond round trip or
four millisecond output latency at 128 samples 11 milliseconds round trip or five milliseconds
output and 256 samples 16 and a half milliseconds round trip or eight milliseconds output
so
i don't want to test this my cause i don't think it matters i think that barringer is a troll
i'd rather leave this town and go and hunt for yeti out in the woods by myself but i can't
mainly because i have to sit here and make reviews of
this microphone the bigfoot instead of hunting for real life real world bigfoot
which is a huge bummer for me i want to be doing that not reviewing this damn thing
but here i am i am so impressed that behringer has put out a brand new usb condenser multi-pattern
microphone that uses the same specs and io from its competition that came out over a decade ago
how incredibly groundbreaking but with that out of the way as far as pros it's more affordable
it's cheaper than the blue yeti classic which is its competition that's the real selling point here
and the other pro it sounds fine it functions and it doesn't sound absolutely terrible
good on ya behringer and then as far as cons it is limited to 16 bit 48 kilohertz it also has a
mini usb port both of those seem very outdated for a microphone that was released in 2020 or 2021 and
the last con is it seems like a copy of the blue yeti just in a prettier body i don't like that
then as far as my overall thoughts and opinions of this microphone on the electric guitar i
didn't hate it it had a very open top end with a little bit of crunch to it which i always like
on more aggressive guitar tones however when i got to the upper register of the guitar
it did start to get a little bit piercing but all in all i didn't hate it and it's usable then on
the acoustic guitar i thought it had a very clear top end the low end was not overpowering but the
low mids had a little bit of a around sound a roar kind of sound a little bit muffled sounding in the
low mids but for home recordings again i think it's it's usable i wouldn't complain about it
next up for singing it's not my favorite thing i think the top end is a little bit too artificial
sounding it almost has a bit of sizzle to it which i am not too keen on it makes it a little bit
fatiguing to listen to for long periods of time but for home recordings for demoing you could
easily make it work with a de-esser and a little bit of eq i think you could fix that right up
and lastly for spoken word i think this is very comparable to the original blue yeti the top end
is crisp the low end is controlled and the mids are unobtrusive this does tend to have a little
bit more of an artificial top end that i think will get quite fatiguing over long periods of time
probably wouldn't be my first choice because of that but if this is the only microphone you have
and you have a couple of plug-ins in your daw like a de-esser and an eq i'm sure you'd be able to get
this to work and to wrap up what i recommend the behringer bigfoot no i would not i am not
avoiding recommendation because i think it's a bad microphone i think it's a perfectly sufficient
microphone it functions and it's affordable it does seem outdated 16-bit 48 kilohertz mini usb
exact same functionality and placement of controls as the original blue yeti that came out over a
decade ago a bit outdated but it still functions that is not why i am avoiding recommendation
but the reason that i'm not recommending it is it leaves a metaphorical bad taste in my mouth
i just don't like the idea of audio companies getting into this troll territory where they say
look what we did we're copying exactly what you did and making it a joke but then actually selling
it it this wasn't released on april 1st if it was a post on april 1st cool ha ha funny joke it's
the bigfoot we get it it's copying the yeti but actually going to market with it it seems petty
to me and i imagine that behringer does have great engineers that are capable of designing original
audio gear i would just love to see them do that instead of this troll crap because yeah it's funny
on twitter but when you're actually selling it doesn't fly for me so no i'm not gonna recommend
it all right i think that's gonna wrap up for today i can't wait to get some mean comments about
this one so i can't believe you didn't recommend it let me know let me know which microphone you
like the best in the comments down below did you like the bigfoot the yeti the yeti nano the yeti x
the rode nt usb mini let me know in the comments down below if you did find this
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