![]() ![]() You can literally record from anywhere with a computer and the Blue Yeti. Even without a case, it travels well and doesn’t take up much space. Save for a couple of dings, the Blue Yeti hasn’t missed a beat. In his attempt to record his own podcast, or simply try on dad’s headphones, my son has pulled over the Blue Yeti mic at least thrice. The Blue Yeti is tough - and tested by my 3-year-old son, to be exact. On the back, there’s a gain knob and a switch for four directional pattern modes - cardioid, omnidirectional, bidirectional and stereo. The front of the mic has a mute button and a volume knob for easy access and adjustment. Most modern studio recordings are recorded multitrack with many different “mono” tracks and then during mixing the tracks are panned left-to-right across the virtual soundstage with the lead vocals in the center (center = equal in both channels).With its traditional look and simple design, the Blue Yeti makes you feel like you’re in the studio, even if you’re recording at home or on the road. You can use a stereo interface to record voice on one side and guitar in the other, but that doesn’t sound natural so they’d normally be panned to the center (or nearly center) in the final mix.(The reflected sound does come from all directions.) With a piano or drum kit live on stage you can’t really hear left & right… The angle is too narrow and there is lots of reflected sound. ![]() Sometimes “wide” instruments like a piano or drum kit are recorded in stereo but that’s sort-of an “enhancement”. If you have a choir, orchestra, or band, spread-out across the stage you can record in stereo with one mic pointed toward the left and another pointed toward the right (or spaced-out and positioned left & right). The Yeti doesn’t need that because the USB connector can carry stereo.Ī single voice or a single instrument is mono.* Here is a stereo mic I found (crazy expensive!) and one of the images shows the split cable with 2 connectors. Regular analog stereo mics have a special connector (with more wires/connections) and an adapter that splits-out separate left & right connections. Stereo is 2 separate channels for left & right. 99% of microphones are mono and stereo recording is normally done with 2 mics. Either way, I feel I’m gonna have to get this computer fixed already, or replaced. ![]() This being a new computer, I haven’t tested the headphone jack as I’ve been plugging my headphones into the Yeti mic. I tested this with not just recording, but with music and videos. Well, it’s working, but it’s only letting out a loud, piercing sound. In this case, the wavelength shows that the left side is picking up sound when the right side is not.Īlso just discovered that my headphone jack on the computer isn’t working. Based on what side of the mic I am on, the wavelengths are bigger or smaller. When I said “monitor”, I should have said the recorded, blue wavelengths. They move together, when on my other computer, they move independently of each other, as they should. When I do the click to monitor, both the left and the right channels are in sync. That may not have come out right when I explained. If yours doesn’t do that, it’s a red flag. The goal of monitoring is to see what the recording is going to look like when you do press the red record button. Something in that process didn’t come out right. If you tell Audacity Click to Start Monitoring so the sound meters bounce without going into record, do you have normal Left recording meter and really low right recording meter?īut yet when you press Record, both left and right meters meet? Or they’re still different during the recording, but you get the mono matching meters when you try to play the recording?
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