How To Set Up Yeti Microphone

How to Adjust the Blueish Yeti Microphone Settings For Podcasting

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Amy Tom

Your Hacker Noon Editor & Pod Host. I'm also a businesswoman, diversity advocate, and dog lover ✌️

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I have been podcasting for a year now between The Fine art Hustlers' Studio and The HackerNoon Podcast, and I've learned a few things most audio. I'm in no style an audio expert yet and my background isn't in audio engineering or production. Merely, one twenty-four hour period in 2022 I bought a mic and started learning lessons the difficult style - by doing, f*cking up, and improving.

Over the by year, I've made many audio mistakes and it has been fabulous for my career and growth. On the very beginning podcast episode I recorded, I had my mic muted for the first half of the episode. On an episode I recorded with an in-person guest, the audio was horrifying because I didn't know how to position the mic. With this slogging thread and story, I promise y'all tin can learn from some of my mistakes past adjusting to the optimal settings for your Yeti Blue mic.

The Yeti Blue Mic

There are a few nobs on the Yeti Blue mic. The commencement is the mute button. As part of my pre-recording checklist, I always make sure I can see a solid red light on that mute push button, which indicates the mic is on and not muted. If you're light is flashing, you won't be recording sound, my friend.

The next nob is the volume dial. As a podcaster who records with guests, this dial is pretty much simply for show. Apparently, you lot can plug your headphones directly into the mic - I've never needed to do this.

On the backside of the mic, I have the gain nob. Gain refers to the level of sound output for the mic. If the gain is also loftier, y'all'll become clipped. If the gain is as well low, you won't hear anything; the gain dial is very sensitive. To give you lot some context, on ane of the latest recordings of The HackerNoon Podcast, one of the mic's gain was fix at 3 o'clock and that was way also high. Mine is set up at viii o'clock, simply I also have a vocal booth surrounding my mic which helps. Endeavour setting your dial to nine o'clock to showtime. In full general, I'd say information technology'south better to err on the side of quiet than loud because it can generally be adapted in post (unless it's As well quiet).

Below the gain nob is the pattern nob. This dial changes the blazon of recording pattern your mic will use. There are four kinds of patterns: cardioid, stereo, omnidirectional, and bidirectional. For podcasting, you should be using the cardioid setting which is the i that looks like a petty butt. This is optimized so that any is directly in front of the mic (in this example you) will be recorded. If you were recording with a guest in person and with but i mic, you'd want to change to omnidirectional or bidirectional.

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I other important thing to remember virtually using the Blue Yeti mic is where to speak into the mic. Most people want to betoken the tip of the mic towards their mouth, but yous should actually exist keeping the mic upwards and down and talking into the side of it. You also don't want to be too close and talking directly into the mic itself. Information technology's better to talk at least a pes back and turn up the gain if y'all need to.

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This Slogging thread by Alex Cobb, Amy, David, Guy and Linh occurred in hackernoon's official #podcast channel, and has been edited for readability.

What'south everyone setting his or her gain to for the TWOPI recordings? Also, is everyone making sure to keep sound rolling throughout and not cutting it off partway through?

Because someone may have clipped a fleck...the entire episode

Yours looks good! I like 9 o'clock, merely information technology sounds dandy. That sounds insulating is doing numbers.

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David I believe you are the culprit in question 😂

Not pointing any fingers or naming any names, but it's not Amy, and the gain problem specifically isn't Guy.

ha its probably me, I fastened a mic for the showtime time. its also a yetti. it worked fine via restream in this first recording https://twitter.com/productschool/status/1412501856870449152 and then twopi and storm podcast yesterday was 2d and third fourth dimension using it.

with this reckoner.

yous probs only need to put your gain to ix'oclock. "clipping" means it was too loud and so y'all went over the audio threshold for appropriate volume :savage-grin-with-tear:

Audio expert over here^ :face_with_monocle:

Who'southward proceeds? But glad my $30 5 year-old mic isn't causing too many issues hehe

Your upshot was muting your audio periodically and inadvertently pausing the recording.

So, it's non a contest, but Amy wins.

Is Storm's podcast also off? Are those 2 recordings salvagable/publishable?

Gain was at 3 oclock, merely moved to ix oclock now

Does muting on zoom affect the recording (even when I'yard not speaking)? I Take A SQUEAKY CHAIR

Yup. Information technology's an abysmal system. We truly do live in a society. Do they have WD-twoscore over there?

Can nosotros hear a test of 9 o'clock? Idk if yous can send it over the slack.

I've been pregnant to requite it a adept spray-down for ages, but cheers for letting me know about the zoom muting thing!

Yeah, it'south something no i else seems to realise and I just plant out about by reading the podcast recording guidelines. Terrible system from Zoom. Only manner around it would be recording a carve up runway too.
No worries, tho, mate. Took care of information technology. Thank you.

David yous also gotta modify the bottom dial to the butt looking icon loooool

omg what'southward going on??? i don't empathize annihilation =)))

It's also chosen cardioid, simply that'due south Then much less fun to say.

so i'm planning to use the yeti mic with the dongle as mentioned at the end of the twopi episode, awhat now? exercise i take to know anything about zoom setting or what have you?

I'd say don't mute your Zoom call under whatever circumstances. I Recollect y'all can mute the mic If you have to.

omg that's news for me. ok. how does one mute the mic though 🙈

Should be a button, depending on the model. Amy's doesn't seem to have one. My model has a niggling button right in the middle.

Oh my mute button is on the other side

Accept 10/x recorded unabridged episodes with the mic muted in the past SOOO

That's information technology, everyone - thanks for reading! I promise this helps you lot avoid some of the same audio mistakes I was making. If yous desire to check out my podcasts, you can listen to The Art Hustlers' Studio or The HackerNoon Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you become your podcasts. In the meantime, I'll be podding hard.

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