**The Blue Yeti X: A Review**

In this article, we'll take a closer look at the Blue Yeti X, a popular microphone that has gained a reputation for its high-quality audio. We'll discuss the microphone's features, sound quality, and our experience with it.

**Tweaking and EQing**

One of the things that sets the Blue Yeti X apart from other microphones is its ability to be tweaked and EQed to suit different preferences. The microphone comes with a flat profile, which can be beneficial for those who prefer a more neutral sound. However, some users have reported that they prefer a slightly warmer or brighter tone, which can be achieved by adjusting the EQ settings. "I'm not sure I'd say it's better than the elgato wave, but everyone's got their own preference," says our host. "I've found that with a little tweaking, you can get it to sound amazing."

**Noise Rejection**

One of the most important aspects of any microphone is its ability to reject noise and background sounds. The Blue Yeti X has a built-in noise gate, which helps to eliminate unwanted sounds and improve overall audio quality. We put the microphone through various tests to see how well it performs in different situations. "I pulled up my usual white noise test and ran it with and without the noise gate," says our host. "It's clear that the noise gate makes a big difference."

**Typing and Talking Tests**

To get a better sense of the microphone's performance, we conducted some typing and talking tests. We started by playing around with the microphone in different positions, including coming up from below and behind it. We also tested its sensitivity to sound waves by placing it near a keyboard and clicking on it repeatedly. "The microphone is incredibly sensitive," says our host. "It's able to pick up even the smallest sounds."

**Typing Test Results**

When we conducted our typing test, we were surprised at how well the microphone performed. Even with the noise gate turned off, it was able to capture every keystroke clearly and accurately. We also tried talking while typing, which revealed that the microphone can sometimes pick up background noises from nearby surfaces.

**Typing Test Results (with Noise Gate)**

When we repeated our typing test with the noise gate enabled, we were impressed at how well it performed. The microphone was able to reject even the faintest sounds and focus solely on the audio being produced by our keyboard. "It's amazing," says our host. "The noise gate makes a huge difference in terms of overall sound quality."

**Typing Test Results (with Blue Voice Settings)**

We also experimented with different settings, including using the Blue Voice software that comes with the microphone. When we enabled this setting and played around with the microphone in different positions, we were surprised at how much it improved its performance. "It's like a whole new microphone," says our host.

**Typing Test Results (without Noise Gate, with Cherry Black Equivalents)**

In one final test, we used the Cherry Black equivalents switches instead of Blue MX blue switches because they have been moved to another set and tried typing while talking and clicking on it repeatedly. We were surprised at how well the microphone performed in this scenario.

**Comparison to Elgato Wave**

One of the main advantages of the Blue Yeti X is its ability to be used as a starting point for other microphones. "I'm not sure I'd say it's better than the elgato wave, but everyone's got their own preference," says our host. "The elgato wave has a flatter profile that some people prefer."

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Blue Yeti X is a solid microphone that can produce high-quality audio with minimal effort. However, its value depends on individual preferences and needs. While it may not be worth the extra $30-$50 compared to other microphones, such as Elgato's microphone, it does come with some useful features like the noise gate and Blue Voice software.

**Best Practices for Microphone Usage**

Regardless of which microphone you choose, there are several best practices that can help improve its performance. These include using the microphone up close to your mouth, not too far away, and not cranking up the gain. "It's all about finding the right balance," says our host.

**Final Thoughts**

In this article, we've taken a closer look at the Blue Yeti X, a popular microphone that has gained a reputation for its high-quality audio. We discussed the microphone's features, sound quality, and our experience with it. Whether or not you choose to use the Blue Yeti X will depend on your individual needs and preferences.

**The Choice is Yours**

Ultimately, the choice of microphone comes down to personal preference and budget. While some users may find that the extra $30-$50 is worth it for the features and sound quality of the Blue Yeti X, others may prefer a more affordable option. "It's all about finding the right balance," says our host.

**Conclusion**

The Blue Yeti X is a solid microphone that can produce high-quality audio with minimal effort. However, its value depends on individual preferences and needs. With its ability to be tweaked and EQed, noise gate, and Blue Voice software, it's definitely worth considering for any musician or content creator.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhave you ever wanted a blue yeti but with x in the name they already had a blue yeti pro so i guess the only way to go was from there was x i guess blue gonna give it to you they're gonna give it to you blue gonna give it to you this is the blue yeti x blue's new flagship usb condenser microphone it's about time that i reviewed it too because it's been out a while but my first microphone review in a while we're gonna get right into it after a word from this video's sponsor did you miss the nerd or die summer sale but you still want a discount on some of the best and most customizable graphics for your stream including alerts overlays transitions and an easy one-click setup well the first 100 of you to use coupon code ev50 can save 50 it's the gift that keeps on giving as it works on bundles as well that's ev50 at checkout over at eposvox dot gg slash nerd or die you're welcome i'm eposvox your stream professor and this is the blue yeti x this is blue's new leading yeti usb condenser microphone it is 169 dollars which for a blue usb mic i honestly expected it to be more but when you compare it to the pricing of say elgato's wave microphones that just came out this year it's quite the battle there we'll be talking about how those compare and how they sound different and things like that in a little bit uh but looking at the body itself it's made of some very durable metal and things like that like you would expect the original blue yeti and the eddy pro were both built like a tank you've got a big heavy stand you've got micro usb connectivity which is a little disappointing would much prefer usb type c and then you have an adapter mount so you can start converting it to a microphone arm but you can't screw a microphone arm directly into this you need extra adapter arms and stuff which come in the box but i don't have with me on hand it's fully adjustable in terms of position around front you have a dial that you click in to mute the microphone so here's the usual chunk so you can kind of hear there whether it does the there's usually a lot of handling noise muting the blue microphone and then around back you actually have a button to switch pickup patterns there's the figure eight pickup pattern for interview mode there's the omnidirectional mode there's the stereo mode and then there is the cardioid mode which is what i'm going to focus on here i actually i had tweeted on twitter asking obviously that's what you do on twitter i posted on twitter asking if anyone actually used these alternate modes on their usb microphones and most people either never really realized their microphones had them whenever they had usb microphones or never really found a use but there were some people who said like yeah nine times out of ten i'm not using that but it did come in handy in xyz scenario so if that's worth it to you there you go but that usually adds the extra cost and potential shortcuts made in order to make these kinds of microphones work in terms of specs it has a 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz frequency response of course it has a new blue well it has four of them blue proprietary uh 14 millimeter condenser capsules inside has a max spl of 122 decibels and the entire package with the sand weighs 2.8 pounds it is a heavy beast it of course does have a headphone out as well so those are the specs in the microphone itself and you have been hearing it on one of the preset settings and we're going to switch over to their software because this actually comes packaged with blue sherpa software it's quite the name that allows you to do a lot with this microphone it doesn't let you do the same stuff as elgato software does but it lets you do stuff that elgato software doesn't so this is the blue sherpa app this is what you download on its own it's a standalone app or it comes integrated into the logitech g-hub software i didn't have issues with g-hub so i try to avoid it but the app itself is standalone here here you can update the microphone's firmware you can change the individual settings for the entire microphone so for example i can change the polar pattern i can change the gain and i can even change open the control panel to change the actual format of the microphone headphone level monitoring balance all of that and since everything on the microphone itself in terms of controls is software based uh everything you change here is going to match up both to the microphone settings directly on the microphone as well as the windows sound control panel settings that way there's no mixing up your settings you know having the gain set real low in windows but real high here or messing anything up in that regard so that's pretty handy you can come over here where it says enable blue voice and now you get an entire suite of controls for post processing on your microphone and it even has a little handy tool to record a sample with the current settings play it back keep looping it to you and then adjust from there and it has a bunch of different presets here these are the ones that come with it you can of course create your own and you can probably download some from others because you have a filter option which implies you can have a lot set up here it has the master output level which all of these have a really low output level for some reason so i went ahead and cranked them all up so you can actually hear me and then we'll go through the settings so first of all let's run through the presets by default here i've been on the low voice aloud i think it's the most uh flattering to my voice that people are least likely to complain about i actually like a couple others but they tend to be a little more boomy and people complain about the boominess but we'll run through here first and foremost we have the am radio setting i'm not sure who's recording am radio with the blue yeti x but if you like the sound of am radio this one might be for you then we have broadcaster one broadcaster one's a little bit more boomy a little bit more you know typical podcast radio style and then we have broadcaster 2 which in my testing seemed to be even a little bit more boomy than that i actually really like the sound out of this but like i said with my voice it does create a bit of boominess and i do think people would complain about that just based on the weird complaints about boominess and then lack of boominess that i inconsistently get across all of my videos and then we have classic radio voice if you want the classic radio sound i suppose wvox and then we have crisp and modern that's crisp and modern sound and then we have the flat profile the flat profile and then we have two profiles soft and loud for high pitched voices this is high voice loud this is high voice soft and this really just kind of changes the compressor and the gate settings kind of weird and then we have the same thing for allow or for low voices so this is low voice loud this is low voice soft and then lastly but not leastly we have worm and vintage kicking back over here to broadcaster two for a second you can see here in these settings you actually have control over pretty much everything now this is running on software it's not running on the actual microphone itself so it will use cpu cycles for it but i cannot possibly imagine this actually causing any significant added cpu load or anything like that on all but like the lowest in the oldest machines used for streaming or something like that so you initially have a three band eq here that you can customize as you wish but if you click the three dots then you can adjust which frequencies are being affected as well as the width of the effect on it so by default it's one or two octaves but you can go from there i don't think octaves was the right word there but that's fine under noise reduction you have more filters or more settings for the noise reduction filter more settings for the expander and gate more settings for the de-esser in case you need to find your specific frequency compressor settings threshold ratio all of that as you would expect and then limiter settings as well so lots of settings available here and if you don't want any of this for some reason you can just click enable blue voice and turn it off and now we're back with the raw sound of the microphone although it's running a little hot here so hopefully i did not peak just now but there you go that is the raw sound we're gonna go ahead and turn that back on and i will go back to let's do classic radio voice so that is the blue sherpa software you have a little bit more settings here for like updates and things like that but it's pretty handy that this comes with the microphone my only concern here though is that in terms of like microphone value and what you're actually getting for your money this offers the post-production processing post-processing stuff that i complained about elgato's wave software wavelink not actually having but elgato's wavelength software gives you all of the virtual mixing and virtual audio devices and all of that that no other microphone really comes with and blues definitely doesn't so in terms of the added value given that you can use vsts in obs and things like that i would almost argue that the wave microphone comes with the most valuable software com you know between these two microphones especially if they add the post processing because if you're just looking for post processing the blue yeti x probably is the way to go because it has all of those options built in you don't have to download anything else learn vst filters anything like that but that's just one little limitation that elgato had tease was coming to the elgato wavelink app at one point they had told me they hope they can do it but no confirmation that it was happening supposedly they told harris heller it was actually happening so one way or the other if they introduce that into the wavelength software it's really hard to argue the value of this microphone over the wave microphones in that regard overall i think this microphone sounds pretty good for a usb condenser microphone it sounds fairly solid like i am impressed with the sound of it assuming you're using it in the right way which we'll talk about in a little bit the sound is pretty nice but again i am leveraging the presets in the software here because i don't think most people should be using just purely the raw audio out of a microphone for live streaming or content creation unless you're sending raw voice over samples to then be processed by someone else that being said the raw audio is important to keep in mind as a base point for processing so let's flip over to my raw sample comparison to the avermedia mic the elgato mic and the hyperx quadcast real quick three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for the mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of mordor where the shadows lie one ring to rule them all one ring define them one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them in the land of mordor where the shadows lie so in my elgato wave review where i had all of these raw samples compared compared i felt like the yeti x's audio felt a little too muddy like there was extra low end there but it wasn't flattering low end imo and it lacked some clarity in the high end in the raw audio versus the elgato wave and the hyperx quadcast but a lot of people preferred that extra emphasis on the audio compared to the flatter profile of the elgato wave so it's definitely up to you and of course like i said everything you can tweak and eq and pretty much convert any microphone into another in many regards in terms of the actual like eq and muddiness and all of that obviously you want the best possible starting place but whatever uh let's talk about noise rejection here for a moment we're gonna pull up the white noise test and i'm gonna do this first with that um classic radio already applied here as that has a noise gate and you can see how that works and then we'll run it without the noise gate so you can see how it sounds normally for noise rejection pulling up my usual white noise sample here so this is like a little less than half volume actually half volume on my phone pointed at the microphone so straight on at the microphone coming around the right side of the microphone coming around the back of the microphone coming around the left side of the microphone up above the microphone down below the microphone and now back in front and again that was with the blue voice settings enabled so i'm just going to turn that off entirely now we're running on the raw microphone audio and i'm playing this pointed at the microphone coming around the right side of the microphone now completely behind the microphone left side of the microphone up above the microphone and back in front now we're going to do our typing test unfortunately i have moved sets into a completely different setup so i no longer have cherry mx blue switches that i usually have but this is a cherry black equivalents so i'm going to be and this is with the noise gate turned off i'm going to be typing while talking talking while typing tippity tap tap tip tip tap zippity zap zap and i'm going to do some clicks and some clicks and some clicks and there you go the microphone is in front of it now all of these tests have been done with the microphone well i'm going to use crisp and modern now so all of these tests have been done with the microphone in correct positioning and use mostly appropriately i would prefer to have it up off the desk on an arm and kind of closer to you what have you with a pop filter maybe but generally speaking these are my best practices for microphone usage in terms of making sure that you have it up close to your mouth you don't have it way far away you don't have the gain cranked up or whatever but what a lot of people tend to do with the original yeti is use it wrong and then it sounds horrible so i'm going to give you an example of that because you heard what it sounds normally i'm going to set it all the way across my desk here it is now basically up against the monitor now i'm going to have to talk louder to compensate for that and click crank up gain and we're also going to do a typing test real quick here talking about typing now the keyboard is in front of the microphone so if you're game streaming like this not only do you have to talk louder you're going to pick up more reflections off your monitors and your whatever's on your desk and the keyboards now in front of the mic capsule picking up more of that sound i have an entire video dedicated to the physics of microphone usage i have that linked in the video description go check that out because you don't want to be that person with your yeti so that's it that's the blue yeti x i am 469 that's not a bad microphone it's pretty solid it beats out the older yetis and things like that as long as you are using it appropriately i'm glad i finally got to review this i am actually impressed with what it is so congrats blue you made another solid microphone that hopefully people will use appropriately this time but in terms of value i don't know if you can justify the extra 30 bucks or up to 50 bucks over the cost of elgato's microphone especially with that cool voice meter like software that it comes with so the choice is yours of course i just want to provide all of these samples to you so you can make the right decision for you ultimately good audio practices like i talked about matter a lot more as well as just generally making entertaining content not obsessing over the gear that you have but i want to make this content so you can pick the best possible gear for you hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more streaming education and tech education i'm your host eposvox go check me out on twitter uh join us on discord eposvox gg slash discord to come chat about microphones get help with your setup learn more about streaming or just nerd culture in general and go check us out on floatplane for early access to videos and behind the scenes content i said that totally wrong see you laterhave you ever wanted a blue yeti but with x in the name they already had a blue yeti pro so i guess the only way to go was from there was x i guess blue gonna give it to you they're gonna give it to you blue gonna give it to you this is the blue yeti x blue's new flagship usb condenser microphone it's about time that i reviewed it too because it's been out a while but my first microphone review in a while we're gonna get right into it after a word from this video's sponsor did you miss the nerd or die summer sale but you still want a discount on some of the best and most customizable graphics for your stream including alerts overlays transitions and an easy one-click setup well the first 100 of you to use coupon code ev50 can save 50 it's the gift that keeps on giving as it works on bundles as well that's ev50 at checkout over at eposvox dot gg slash nerd or die you're welcome i'm eposvox your stream professor and this is the blue yeti x this is blue's new leading yeti usb condenser microphone it is 169 dollars which for a blue usb mic i honestly expected it to be more but when you compare it to the pricing of say elgato's wave microphones that just came out this year it's quite the battle there we'll be talking about how those compare and how they sound different and things like that in a little bit uh but looking at the body itself it's made of some very durable metal and things like that like you would expect the original blue yeti and the eddy pro were both built like a tank you've got a big heavy stand you've got micro usb connectivity which is a little disappointing would much prefer usb type c and then you have an adapter mount so you can start converting it to a microphone arm but you can't screw a microphone arm directly into this you need extra adapter arms and stuff which come in the box but i don't have with me on hand it's fully adjustable in terms of position around front you have a dial that you click in to mute the microphone so here's the usual chunk so you can kind of hear there whether it does the there's usually a lot of handling noise muting the blue microphone and then around back you actually have a button to switch pickup patterns there's the figure eight pickup pattern for interview mode there's the omnidirectional mode there's the stereo mode and then there is the cardioid mode which is what i'm going to focus on here i actually i had tweeted on twitter asking obviously that's what you do on twitter i posted on twitter asking if anyone actually used these alternate modes on their usb microphones and most people either never really realized their microphones had them whenever they had usb microphones or never really found a use but there were some people who said like yeah nine times out of ten i'm not using that but it did come in handy in xyz scenario so if that's worth it to you there you go but that usually adds the extra cost and potential shortcuts made in order to make these kinds of microphones work in terms of specs it has a 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz frequency response of course it has a new blue well it has four of them blue proprietary uh 14 millimeter condenser capsules inside has a max spl of 122 decibels and the entire package with the sand weighs 2.8 pounds it is a heavy beast it of course does have a headphone out as well so those are the specs in the microphone itself and you have been hearing it on one of the preset settings and we're going to switch over to their software because this actually comes packaged with blue sherpa software it's quite the name that allows you to do a lot with this microphone it doesn't let you do the same stuff as elgato software does but it lets you do stuff that elgato software doesn't so this is the blue sherpa app this is what you download on its own it's a standalone app or it comes integrated into the logitech g-hub software i didn't have issues with g-hub so i try to avoid it but the app itself is standalone here here you can update the microphone's firmware you can change the individual settings for the entire microphone so for example i can change the polar pattern i can change the gain and i can even change open the control panel to change the actual format of the microphone headphone level monitoring balance all of that and since everything on the microphone itself in terms of controls is software based uh everything you change here is going to match up both to the microphone settings directly on the microphone as well as the windows sound control panel settings that way there's no mixing up your settings you know having the gain set real low in windows but real high here or messing anything up in that regard so that's pretty handy you can come over here where it says enable blue voice and now you get an entire suite of controls for post processing on your microphone and it even has a little handy tool to record a sample with the current settings play it back keep looping it to you and then adjust from there and it has a bunch of different presets here these are the ones that come with it you can of course create your own and you can probably download some from others because you have a filter option which implies you can have a lot set up here it has the master output level which all of these have a really low output level for some reason so i went ahead and cranked them all up so you can actually hear me and then we'll go through the settings so first of all let's run through the presets by default here i've been on the low voice aloud i think it's the most uh flattering to my voice that people are least likely to complain about i actually like a couple others but they tend to be a little more boomy and people complain about the boominess but we'll run through here first and foremost we have the am radio setting i'm not sure who's recording am radio with the blue yeti x but if you like the sound of am radio this one might be for you then we have broadcaster one broadcaster one's a little bit more boomy a little bit more you know typical podcast radio style and then we have broadcaster 2 which in my testing seemed to be even a little bit more boomy than that i actually really like the sound out of this but like i said with my voice it does create a bit of boominess and i do think people would complain about that just based on the weird complaints about boominess and then lack of boominess that i inconsistently get across all of my videos and then we have classic radio voice if you want the classic radio sound i suppose wvox and then we have crisp and modern that's crisp and modern sound and then we have the flat profile the flat profile and then we have two profiles soft and loud for high pitched voices this is high voice loud this is high voice soft and this really just kind of changes the compressor and the gate settings kind of weird and then we have the same thing for allow or for low voices so this is low voice loud this is low voice soft and then lastly but not leastly we have worm and vintage kicking back over here to broadcaster two for a second you can see here in these settings you actually have control over pretty much everything now this is running on software it's not running on the actual microphone itself so it will use cpu cycles for it but i cannot possibly imagine this actually causing any significant added cpu load or anything like that on all but like the lowest in the oldest machines used for streaming or something like that so you initially have a three band eq here that you can customize as you wish but if you click the three dots then you can adjust which frequencies are being affected as well as the width of the effect on it so by default it's one or two octaves but you can go from there i don't think octaves was the right word there but that's fine under noise reduction you have more filters or more settings for the noise reduction filter more settings for the expander and gate more settings for the de-esser in case you need to find your specific frequency compressor settings threshold ratio all of that as you would expect and then limiter settings as well so lots of settings available here and if you don't want any of this for some reason you can just click enable blue voice and turn it off and now we're back with the raw sound of the microphone although it's running a little hot here so hopefully i did not peak just now but there you go that is the raw sound we're gonna go ahead and turn that back on and i will go back to let's do classic radio voice so that is the blue sherpa software you have a little bit more settings here for like updates and things like that but it's pretty handy that this comes with the microphone my only concern here though is that in terms of like microphone value and what you're actually getting for your money this offers the post-production processing post-processing stuff that i complained about elgato's wave software wavelink not actually having but elgato's wavelength software gives you all of the virtual mixing and virtual audio devices and all of that that no other microphone really comes with and blues definitely doesn't so in terms of the added value given that you can use vsts in obs and things like that i would almost argue that the wave microphone comes with the most valuable software com you know between these two microphones especially if they add the post processing because if you're just looking for post processing the blue yeti x probably is the way to go because it has all of those options built in you don't have to download anything else learn vst filters anything like that but that's just one little limitation that elgato had tease was coming to the elgato wavelink app at one point they had told me they hope they can do it but no confirmation that it was happening supposedly they told harris heller it was actually happening so one way or the other if they introduce that into the wavelength software it's really hard to argue the value of this microphone over the wave microphones in that regard overall i think this microphone sounds pretty good for a usb condenser microphone it sounds fairly solid like i am impressed with the sound of it assuming you're using it in the right way which we'll talk about in a little bit the sound is pretty nice but again i am leveraging the presets in the software here because i don't think most people should be using just purely the raw audio out of a microphone for live streaming or content creation unless you're sending raw voice over samples to then be processed by someone else that being said the raw audio is important to keep in mind as a base point for processing so let's flip over to my raw sample comparison to the avermedia mic the elgato mic and the hyperx quadcast real quick three rings for the oven kings under the sky seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone nine for the mortal men doomed to die one for the dark lord on his dark throne in the land of mordor where the shadows lie one ring to rule them all one ring define them one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them in the land of mordor where the shadows lie so in my elgato wave review where i had all of these raw samples compared compared i felt like the yeti x's audio felt a little too muddy like there was extra low end there but it wasn't flattering low end imo and it lacked some clarity in the high end in the raw audio versus the elgato wave and the hyperx quadcast but a lot of people preferred that extra emphasis on the audio compared to the flatter profile of the elgato wave so it's definitely up to you and of course like i said everything you can tweak and eq and pretty much convert any microphone into another in many regards in terms of the actual like eq and muddiness and all of that obviously you want the best possible starting place but whatever uh let's talk about noise rejection here for a moment we're gonna pull up the white noise test and i'm gonna do this first with that um classic radio already applied here as that has a noise gate and you can see how that works and then we'll run it without the noise gate so you can see how it sounds normally for noise rejection pulling up my usual white noise sample here so this is like a little less than half volume actually half volume on my phone pointed at the microphone so straight on at the microphone coming around the right side of the microphone coming around the back of the microphone coming around the left side of the microphone up above the microphone down below the microphone and now back in front and again that was with the blue voice settings enabled so i'm just going to turn that off entirely now we're running on the raw microphone audio and i'm playing this pointed at the microphone coming around the right side of the microphone now completely behind the microphone left side of the microphone up above the microphone and back in front now we're going to do our typing test unfortunately i have moved sets into a completely different setup so i no longer have cherry mx blue switches that i usually have but this is a cherry black equivalents so i'm going to be and this is with the noise gate turned off i'm going to be typing while talking talking while typing tippity tap tap tip tip tap zippity zap zap and i'm going to do some clicks and some clicks and some clicks and there you go the microphone is in front of it now all of these tests have been done with the microphone well i'm going to use crisp and modern now so all of these tests have been done with the microphone in correct positioning and use mostly appropriately i would prefer to have it up off the desk on an arm and kind of closer to you what have you with a pop filter maybe but generally speaking these are my best practices for microphone usage in terms of making sure that you have it up close to your mouth you don't have it way far away you don't have the gain cranked up or whatever but what a lot of people tend to do with the original yeti is use it wrong and then it sounds horrible so i'm going to give you an example of that because you heard what it sounds normally i'm going to set it all the way across my desk here it is now basically up against the monitor now i'm going to have to talk louder to compensate for that and click crank up gain and we're also going to do a typing test real quick here talking about typing now the keyboard is in front of the microphone so if you're game streaming like this not only do you have to talk louder you're going to pick up more reflections off your monitors and your whatever's on your desk and the keyboards now in front of the mic capsule picking up more of that sound i have an entire video dedicated to the physics of microphone usage i have that linked in the video description go check that out because you don't want to be that person with your yeti so that's it that's the blue yeti x i am 469 that's not a bad microphone it's pretty solid it beats out the older yetis and things like that as long as you are using it appropriately i'm glad i finally got to review this i am actually impressed with what it is so congrats blue you made another solid microphone that hopefully people will use appropriately this time but in terms of value i don't know if you can justify the extra 30 bucks or up to 50 bucks over the cost of elgato's microphone especially with that cool voice meter like software that it comes with so the choice is yours of course i just want to provide all of these samples to you so you can make the right decision for you ultimately good audio practices like i talked about matter a lot more as well as just generally making entertaining content not obsessing over the gear that you have but i want to make this content so you can pick the best possible gear for you hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more streaming education and tech education i'm your host eposvox go check me out on twitter uh join us on discord eposvox gg slash discord to come chat about microphones get help with your setup learn more about streaming or just nerd culture in general and go check us out on floatplane for early access to videos and behind the scenes content i said that totally wrong see you later\n"