Comments on: Blue Yeti Professional USB Microphone http://nwiitt.org.uk/blue-yeti-professional-usb-microphone North West Institute of IT Training Regional Group Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:54:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mark http://nwiitt.org.uk/blue-yeti-professional-usb-microphone#comment-6 Mark Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:11:56 +0000 http://nwiitt.org.uk/?p=556#comment-6 Having been through some confusion of trying to connect stereo microphones into left and right XLR channels, this ~£100 device would appear to keep usagesimple. BUT, I don't really understand what signals are coming down this USB (and found no help at Blue site) and what an application sees. So I'm asking you what you have observed as a user... I would assume you will always get 2 distinct channels coming into the computer and recording software. (Correct ?) So, I wondered how that maps onto cardioid, bidirectional, omnidirectional ...and "stereo" ? Firstly, if you turned the bidirectional mode through 90 degrees naively that gives classic Left/Right stereo channels - I'm guessing that is much like stereo but with a very sharp directional cut-off. - i.e a narrow figure-8 versus a wide figure-8 ? Cardioid is (front-priority) directional as opposed to omnidirectional. But in all four of those modes do we get 2 distinct and potentially different signals taken from the left and right side of the microphone ... or does that still require 2 (or more) microphones ? Having been through some confusion of trying to connect stereo microphones into left and right XLR channels, this ~£100 device would appear to keep usagesimple.
BUT, I don’t really understand what signals are coming down this USB (and found no help at Blue site) and what an application sees.
So I’m asking you what you have observed as a user…

I would assume you will always get 2 distinct channels coming into the computer and recording software. (Correct ?) So, I wondered how that maps onto cardioid, bidirectional, omnidirectional …and “stereo” ?
Firstly, if you turned the bidirectional mode through 90 degrees naively that gives classic Left/Right stereo channels – I’m guessing that is much like stereo but with a very sharp directional cut-off.
- i.e a narrow figure-8 versus a wide figure-8 ?

Cardioid is (front-priority) directional as opposed to omnidirectional.

But in all four of those modes do we get 2 distinct and potentially different signals taken from the left and right side of the microphone … or does that still require 2 (or more) microphones ?

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