Blue YETI Mic for gaming?

[Randy Marsh]

I have a Corsair VOID gaming head set, will I notice a huge difference in Voice Quality or barely?

Also, I found a Blue Yeti with 2 filters for $92. Good price?

[Cloudy]

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Yeti is not a "gamer" product. It's suited to everyone and popular for a reason, and it will be better quality than what you're preaching.

Yeti is marketed towards streamers, gamers, broadcasters, and anyone who needs a mic for general use. I'm not saying the Yeti is bad: I have one. But it's popular because of its convenience and ease of use. But a non USB setup will blow it out of the water any day.

But I have both and the setup I gave is superior. I'm not saying that the Yeti is bad: it's actually decent if you fine tune it and don't mind it picking up KB + M clicks every now and then. But USB mics, in general, tend to be lower quality than actual setups.

I literally suggested all that already but a cheaper option above earlier, I really don't think OP wants to spend more than $92.

[Autumn_]

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Yeti is not a "gamer" product. It's suited to everyone and popular for a reason, and it will be better quality than what you're preaching.

Yeti is marketed towards streamers, gamers, broadcasters, and anyone who needs a mic for general use. I'm not saying the Yeti is bad: I have one. But it's popular because of its convenience and ease of use. But a non USB setup will blow it out of the water any day.

But I have both and the setup I gave is superior. I'm not saying that the Yeti is bad: it's actually decent if you fine tune it and don't mind it picking up KB + M clicks every now and then. But USB mics, in general, tend to be lower quality than actual setups.

USB mics can be just as good as XLR mics.
Just because its USB doesnt mean its inherrently bad.
And as I mentioned before, most things wouldnt benefit from benefits you would see from an XLR mic (provoded you see one at all.)

I would rather have a USB mic, plug and play, potentially the same quality, much more simplicity.

Also, you wouldnt pick up keyboard/mouse clicks of you used an arm.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Dynamic vs condenser at the same distance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6opmb6nlce4
I don't think this is fair since he use the microphones at different distances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrsV_vjMbEk

A much cheaper option beating most microphones on headsets is the V-Moda BoomPro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euoVAmgp0Lw
However the standard mounting option is using 3.5 mm connector in the headphones so if one don't have that one can't mount it that way. If one have it maybe it will fit. It of course fit V-Moda headphones at-least =P

[tacoshy]

Yeti is common as it was highly advertised but so is Razer Sirene. And everyone bought one because others did. Same thign as with Beats Audio. It just sells so much because everybody buys it with exeptions of audiophiles that will confirm that they sound terrible. That however does not make it a good mic.
For gaming it is pretty senseless. If you use TS3 with the right codec you can have the quality but it proberly not making worth the cost. But if you want quality you dont go for the Yeti because for what you get, it is simply to expensive.

Yeti has a lot of troubles without comparing the soudn quality:

- Yeti doesnt use normal screws/stands and cant be used with adifferent stand
--> as such its hard to get in correct position
--> You need extra custom adapters to use it on normal stands.
- Yeti has it controlling knobs at the rear

If you want top qualtiy you either choose Rode NT-USB or Audio Technica AT2020 USB
If you want it cheap you take the snowball over the Yeti which is kinda the same (less difference between Yeti and Snowball compared to Yeti and NT-USB) but for less then half the cost.

And yes I would always go with an USB Mic for its versitility, simplicity and poratability comapred to XLR.

[Talby]

The Samson Go Mic[www.amazon.com] is also pretty good bang-per-buck @ $37, and can sit atop your monitor for less clutter. Their Meteor mic[www.amazon.com] also seems like a decent step up.

Just noticed a killer deal on the Meteorite (white)[www.amazon.com] for $20, nearly 1/2 price...

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

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The Samson Go Mic[www.amazon.com] is also pretty good bang-per-buck @ $37, and can sit atop your monitor for less clutter. Their Meteor mic[www.amazon.com] also seems like a decent step up.

Just noticed a killer deal on the Meteorite (white)[www.amazon.com] for $20, nearly 1/2 price...

Problem with those over something like the BoomPro is that they will sit far away from your mouth and possibly pick up table vibrations and such. The actual microphone may be superior but signal to noise (including background noise) may be relevant.

I play with a €2.4 lavalier microphone and speakers so the later is likely very disturbing.

[Talby]

Quite true, my Zalman ZM-Mic1 is more then sufficient for typical gaming use, and always temped to upgrade to a desk or monitor mounted mic so I can switch easier between open and closed back headsets - just hate dealing with that dang wire... May pick up that Meteorite since it's cheap enough just to give it a try.

Boompro would be awesome but only my SHP-9500s have a jack :( To add insult to injury, my closed backs are Senn HD 202s so I can 't even put a jack in it :(~