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1. EXTERNAL MICROPHONE FOR MACBOOK PRO BLUE YETI FOR MAC
2. EXTERNAL MICROPHONE FOR MACBOOK PRO BLUE YETI PRO

The first sample sounds good until you hear the second one and realize just how much echo and reverb are picked up by the built-in microphone.

EXTERNAL MICROPHONE FOR MACBOOK PRO BLUE YETI PRO

Now the big comparison, the Yeti Pro in “stereo” recording mode: There are solutions that are smaller than the Yeti Pro, no question (like the Blue Mic “Snowflake”) but for the very best possible audio the bulky, heavy Yeti Pro is quite the device. Whether it’s a podcast or Skype call, however, I’m definitely more sensitive than most folk to audio quality, and I’m willing to trade off portability for better sound. When it’s two of us talking with the Yeti Pro in the middle, however, bidirectional is the configuration of choice and ignores audio on either side, perfect for masking the peanut gallery!

For the work I do, cardioid works best: it’s designed for someone sitting in front of the mic and basically ignores sound sources on the sides or behind the microphone. The Yeti Pro has four sound recording modes that pick and balance the built-in microphones with different balances: Stereo, Cardioid, Omnidirectional and Bidirectional. The Yeti Pro is the top end of the Blue Microphone line of computer friendly microphones, and they bill it as the first microphone in the marketplace to combine 192kHz/24bit USB audio with the standard “old school” audio capability of “phantom powered” XLR devices like a studio soundboard or concert hall sound system. It works within the recurrence run of thirty-five Hz - twenty kHz.

EXTERNAL MICROPHONE FOR MACBOOK PRO BLUE YETI FOR MAC

What podcasts, you ask? Thanks for being curious! My friend Michael Sitarzewski and I have a weekly podcast called Boulder Open Podcast, and the two of us add Doyle Albee to the mix for our Three Insight podcasts, also recorded weekly. Blue Sasquatch external microphone for Mac permits you to record sound in MacBook, cardioid, omnidirectional or bidirectional mode. I have a variety of different microphones - and am proud to list Blue Microphone as a sponsor of my podcasts - so when they introduced the new Yeti Pro that offered the best of the digital computer microphone capabilities of the original Yeti with the connectivity and flexibility of an XLR microphone, I was psyched to get my hands on one.

Problem is, while the built-in microphone on the top edge of my laptop is functional and unquestionably convenient, it’s not the best sounding device in the world, a particular problem when I’m recording something for posterity. Between podcasts, video narration, voice overs, conference calls with Skype and hands-free discussions with Google Talk, I spend a lot of time tapping into the audio capabilities of my Apple MacBook Pro.