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Hand-on review of the Yeti Pro from Blue Microphones
Mar 11, 2025
Four polar patterns, wonderful sound quality, and more. Check the video review to see why I think the Blue Yeti Pro is such an incredible value.
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hi everyone airun Elijah here with cult
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of.com welcome to another episode of
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cult ofm TV in this episode I'm going to
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be reviewing the yeti Pro microphone
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from Blue this is the uh much
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anticipated successor to the yeti uh a
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microphone that blue released quite a
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while ago um there are some differences
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and um there's a lot of things I really
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like about this mic a lot uh before I
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jump into those things why don't we do a
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quick unboxing and I'll see you right
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back here in just a sec um okay let's
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get this box
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open okay oh there's like an inner box
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here all
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right okay so top layer looks like we
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have a USB cable and then a pretty heavy
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um set of XLR cables looks like a user
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guide ah there she
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is oh yes
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oh just like that pretty basic
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packaging and then we have the mic
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itself another packet of
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snacks and then that's
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it all right I'm back wasn't that
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exciting so why don't we start with a
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look at the microphone
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itself it's fairly substantial as I hold
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it uh it comes with a built-in stand
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that you kind of tuck away like this and
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as you could see it's it's fairly large
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it's about the size of my giant head um
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but it feels very solid and the bass
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works really well holding the microphone
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at different directions uh one of the
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problems with this microphone initially
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with the yeti was a lot of people had
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complained that these little knobs in
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here felt cheap and kind of wobbled
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around blue obviously heard that um
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these these knobs and the buttons they
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feel much more um sturdy they don't
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wiggle around as much they are still
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made of plastic and they're not totally
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locked in there this one's got a little
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bit of Wiggle but for the most part they
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uh they heard that problem and they
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fixed it now two major differences
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between the yeti and the yeti Pro are
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the color this one's black the yeti I
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believe is blue um one of the major
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differences is this one allows you to
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plug it into an XLR Port you can see
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there's a port right there that's huge
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um if you're going to be using this
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without connecting it to your computer
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for example I have mine plugged into a
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amp connected to my camera right now you
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simply can't do that with the original
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Yeti this one you can so it it it opens
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up an entire world the possibility of
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what you can use this microphone for
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because when you're using a microphone
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to record music um often times you're
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not connecting anything via USB you're
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going to use the XLR Port that's a
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that's a standard in musical like
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recording equipment another one of the
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big differences is this this microphone
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is able to record a much higher quality
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audio 24-bit at 192 2 khz that's a lot
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higher than the yeti and I think it's
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four times the quality of CDs so you can
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record extremely accurate uh audio with
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this microphone or I should say
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extremely high quality audio with this
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microphone one of the things I'm really
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impressed with is how incredibly
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versatile this microphone is you can
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record in four different patterns it has
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bidirectional
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omnidirectional uh
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cardioid um and stereo that's four very
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useful uh different polar patterns that
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you could use in one microphone it comes
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with a stand built in they may not seem
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like an obvious feature that's helpful
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but it is because a lot of microphones
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when you buy them just come with a mic
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uh you may need to buy a stand you may
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need to buy a shock mount this thing
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comes with everything you need and the
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cables that you need it's ready to Plug
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and Play that's really nice so let's
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touch upon this sound quality of this
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microphone I've been using it for about
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2 3 weeks and I've done a series of
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tests uh recording on audio recording
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interviews recording music it does very
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well but what you need to keep in mind
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is this microphone truly is a jack of
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all trades though it does many things
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very well it's not meant to replace a
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microphone like say this sure smb7 which
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is meant specifically for recording
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vocals and it's the same microphone that
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Michael Jackson used to record Thriller
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this is going to do a great job but it's
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not this microphone here's what I think
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is most important to know about this
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microphone it is an extraordinary value
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you for about
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$230 you can use this thing in all sorts
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of situations whether it be a Skype call
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to uh record yourself doing voiceovers
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for video it does a lot of things very
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well and then you can use USB and XLR
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there's no other microphone out there
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that I know of that will do all these
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things and do them well there's not even
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any microphone out there that I know of
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that will do these things poorly I think
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blue is the only one giving you this
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much value in one solid ready to use
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unit so if you just need a general all
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around mic this is the one I would
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recommend there's nothing else like it I
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know that does this many things allinone
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tidy package hey guys so thanks for
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