Blue Yeti Sound Test and 6 Tips for Setting up the Blue Yeti Microphone

Blue Yeti Sound Test and six tips for getting the best sound out of your Blue Yeti Microphone! The Blue Yeti is a USB condenser mic that's very popular for podcasters and YouTubers. This video (and the past 800 videos or so on my channel) showcase a sound test example of what the Blue Yeti mic can sound like when set up with good conditions. The Blue Yeti is plug and play with Windows and MacOS so when I say setup, I mean physically setting things up right!

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I was not sponsored by or paid by Blue for this video- I purchased my Blue Yeti microphone with my own money back in 2013 and I've used it ever since.

To set up your Blue Yeti microphone to sound clear and smooth, here are the six steps I recommend. Step 1: Turn the Gain down or almost all the way down. This should reduce echo and peaking for a stable audio signal. If you need to turn it way down (until it's too quiet) to eliminate background noise, you can compensate by raising the input gain in your computer.

Step 2: Set it to Cardioid. The Blue Yeti has four modes and you can read on their website what they all do, but if you're recording one voice into it you'll want it to be in Cardioid mode. It looks like a little heart/butt/Pacman.

Step 3: Speak into the front of it! Directly above the Blue logo. Not the end of it.

Step 4: Get it off your desk! A boom stand or clamp arm with a shock mount will go a long way towards cleaning up your microphone sound from the Blue Yeti. I've put some Amazon links of examples further up in the description. The Blue Yeti has a standard issue mic threading and will fit most stands and accessories. It's a heavy bird though so don't cheap out on an arm stand!

Step 5: Don't forget the pop filter. They're cheap, they're set-and-forget, they make you look like you know what you're doing and they'll improve your sound quality while extending the potential lifespan of your Blue Yeti microphone.

Step 6: Post Processing. I use the free software Audacity, but you can also touch up your audio in many video editing software kits. Look up tutorials and see what effects you like. I use Bass and Treble boost, Compressor and Normalizer to keep my audio recordings around the same volume level for YouTube. I know the 'before/after' example in the video isn't jaw dropping, but the difference gets more dramatic if your initial recording has background noise to remove.

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