RichM
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If you have Amazon Prime, you can get the Blue Yeti USB Mic for 89.99 and free shipping. Great deal for a great mic!
If you have Amazon Prime, you can get the Blue Yeti USB Mic for 89.99 and free shipping. Great deal for a great mic!
Booli:
Thanks for your many contributions to this forum. I am going to go out and buy a Blue Yeti.
And by the way, welcome back. You were gone for a while.
all the best,
Luke
Another use-case is to run the output of the iRig Acoustic Stage (which is great, discussed previously here on UU and Baz did a great review here) into the Zoom H1, which I have also tested and works well...
It was a choice between the Apogee MiC and the Blue Yeti. The Apogee has higher sampling rate at 96 kHz, but the 48 kHz on the Blue Yeti is no slouch either. And I like the price.
My goal is to do multi-track recordings using Garageband, so the Zoom H1 wouldn't work for me. The Zoom H4 does multi-track recordings but from what I have read, you need an engineering degree to operate it. I want something simple to use, that has only a couple of buttons to push, and for that reason the Yeti seems to fit the bill.
Thanks for all your help.
Luke
I was at the Aloha Stadium Swap Meet on Sunday, and at one of the uke booths, a guy showed me a little pickup that slipped under the strings in front of the bridge. It worked great there, so I picked on up - only $40, so how wrong could it be?
Luke - Maybe you are not familiar with multitracking (and how it works on the computer) but the Zoom H1, when connected via USB to the Mac, works exactly like other USB mics as an audio source, and you multitrack by recording one track at a time and over-dubbing each new instrument/recording to a NEW track while listening to the recording of your previous tracks. Every USB mic and USB interface or preamp works exactly like this.
The Zoom H4n's 'multitracking' functions are primarily a misnomer in this regard as you are not able to overdub to discreet tracks like in Garageband or like with the older Tascam portastudio cassette recorders, the H4n allows you to record in OMNI mode and have each mic capture it's audio to 4 individual WAV files that are time-synced, or with a MID-SIDE feature that does a left, right and center track, each recorded to an individual time-synced track, or it records a stereo track with whatever gain levels you have set as well as a SECOND 'backup' stereo track with the auto-gain feature and peak-limiter activated just in case your first stereo track has clipping/distortion or is otherwise munged and AS SUCH, all of these extra tracks can be imported into Garageband or even Audacity or any other DAW program, and need to be lined up perfectly in order to be useful, which is actually quite easy to do by looking at the waveforms and matching the audio peaks.
This is all kind of standard practice.
Also to note the ZOOM recorders are STEREO mics, while the Apogee MiC, the Blue Yeti and the iRig Acoustic stage are ALL mono capture and mono output.
Thanks again Booli for educating me. I am a novice when it comes to recording. I was not aware there was a difference between multi-tracking and over-dubbing. My goal is to over-dub my ukulele, voice, bass guitar, and steel guitar tracks. I was also not aware that the Zooms are stereo and the other mics are mono.
Great explanation, as always, Booli. It's not exactly a Kremona, from the looks of it - it goes in front of the bridge under the strings.
Like I said, it sounded good at the Swap Meet - have not tested it at home yet. I'll let you know when I do - the LdfM that I got a month ago does not have a pickup, so I thought this might be a patchwork solution. And a high pass filter might be just the trick for my Collings <g>.
I'll post a picture next week when I get some time. There is no brand name on the unit - the guy at the Market claimed he had them named himself.
And my bad - I was confusing hi-pass and low-pass. My Collings is quite trebley, which is nice for some songs and with re-entrant tuning, and it does play like a dream.
Also to note the ZOOM recorders are STEREO mics, while the Apogee MiC, the Blue Yeti and the iRig Acoustic stage are ALL mono capture and mono output.
Both Garageband and Audacity have great effects that are called 'Spatializer' found in the IMAGING section that do a great job with both mono and stereo recordings to simulate an ambient acoustic space, so having a stereo recording, or a stereo mic setup is not always necessary.
Yes, the blue yeti has 4 settings - one of which is stereo so I'm hoping that stereo means stereo because I just ordered one!
And I previously have been using the mics from my Zoom H4, patched into my laptop as previously described. I think they work well, but my main gripe has been that I can't get it close enough to my instrument without it being in the video shot. Maybe I need to sit on a stool or something. I also bought an adjustable boom so I hope it's going to solve some of those problems.