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Rather basing a decision and telling people not to get a microphone based on emotions, I prefer comparisons which this site fails to show. Is there a detailed

Rather basing a decision and telling people not to get a microphone based on emotions, I prefer comparisons which this site fails to show. Is there a detailed comparison of a Yeti and a Shure in audio quality?

smoldesu 4y ago
Frequency response graphs are readily available if you're interested in comparison, but I think there are simple qualitative facts about the Yeti that people miss when they check out, and get disappointed by when it arrives. For example, condenser microphones like the Yeti can be particularly useless in loud environments. Combined with the fact that most people keep the mic a few feet away from their face, the resulting acoustics can be pretty bad. Even if the Yeti did sound better, most people would prefer the Shure simply because of it's dynamic, punchy sound.
- kadoban 4y ago
  Yeah, the main outcome of my microphone research is that I personally should not get a condensor mic unless I also wanted to spend hours and hundreds of dollars treating my room to reduce noise and echos.
post_break 4y ago
https://marco.org/podcasting-microphones https://marco.org/podcasting-microphones Here is a good way to hear them. I have the ATR2100X.
kadoban 4y ago
Podcastage on youtube has great comparisons, and there's a few specific videos he has about which mics are good for different uses/budgets. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-6z93SqEO0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-6z93SqEO0 probably not a bad place to start
mikestew 4y ago
Rather basing a decision and telling people not to get a microphone based on emotions As an amateur musician and full-time remote meeting attendee, I'll tell you all you need to know about why you shouldn't use a Blue Yeti: condenser microphone. Notice how the recommended mics in TFA are dynamic? You don't want the Yeti because (SWAG here...) it's the mic for folks that don't want to have to become experts on microphones: gimme plug-and-play. So Yeti gives those folks a microphone that picks up every flea fart in the room, unless you make an effort to quiet the room. Whereas a dynamic mic in the general case picks up what's in front of it, and doesn't pick up noises that are more than a few feet away from the microphone. So when you're dog's barking in the next room at the Amazon driver, the dynamic mic won't pick that up. And people that go to the trouble to quiet a room don't buy Yetis, nor do people that buy Yetis want to go to that trouble.

smoldesu 4y ago

Frequency response graphs are readily available if you're interested in comparison, but I think there are simple qualitative facts about the Yeti that people miss when they check out, and get disappointed by when it arrives. For example, condenser microphones like the Yeti can be particularly useless in loud environments. Combined with the fact that most people keep the mic a few feet away from their face, the resulting acoustics can be pretty bad. Even if the Yeti did sound better, most people would prefer the Shure simply because of it's dynamic, punchy sound.

kadoban 4y ago
Yeah, the main outcome of my microphone research is that I personally should not get a condensor mic unless I also wanted to spend hours and hundreds of dollars treating my room to reduce noise and echos.

post_break 4y ago

https://marco.org/podcasting-microphones https://marco.org/podcasting-microphones Here is a good way to hear them. I have the ATR2100X.

kadoban 4y ago

Podcastage on youtube has great comparisons, and there's a few specific videos he has about which mics are good for different uses/budgets. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-6z93SqEO0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-6z93SqEO0 probably not a bad place to start

mikestew 4y ago

Rather basing a decision and telling people not to get a microphone based on emotions As an amateur musician and full-time remote meeting attendee, I'll tell you all you need to know about why you shouldn't use a Blue Yeti: condenser microphone. Notice how the recommended mics in TFA are dynamic? You don't want the Yeti because (SWAG here...) it's the mic for folks that don't want to have to become experts on microphones: gimme plug-and-play. So Yeti gives those folks a microphone that picks up every flea fart in the room, unless you make an effort to quiet the room. Whereas a dynamic mic in the general case picks up what's in front of it, and doesn't pick up noises that are more than a few feet away from the microphone. So when you're dog's barking in the next room at the Amazon driver, the dynamic mic won't pick that up. And people that go to the trouble to quiet a room don't buy Yetis, nor do people that buy Yetis want to go to that trouble.