While testing the pickup pattern, I noticed that the custom dynamic capsule did a solid job of picking up everything from a whisper to a normal speaking voice, and even singing as well as harsh metal vocals. You aren’t going to get the depth and clarity of something like the far large...
that's all you get. This does make it slightly awkward if the desk is low since the microphone requires you to be closer for the pattern to capture your voice. There are also no physical controls on the microphone. Everything has to be done through software or the OS, depending on whic...
The Yeti is very good at picking up sounds from far away and close up. Note that you never want to speak to the Yeti too close, even if it does look like a microphone that Billie Holiday would have crooned into closely. If you speak too closely, there will be a raspy noise added ...
7. Everything Everything – Mountainhead indie pop Sample track: Cold Reactor, Dagger’s Edge Depending on where you’re reading this you might not have gotten the memo, but over the past two years Everything Everything have grown to compete with The Drones as my favorite radio-friendly un...
Yeti USB microphone quirks A Yeti mic is extremely sensitive and seems more suited for conversation than music recording in my opinion. Even with the gain all the way down (a must) a loud sound is often distorted. I felt the omni recording mode was the worst in this regard. Stereo record...