The Blue Yeti is the best gadget I ever bought — and still the best microphone out there

September 26,2024

It was the summer of 2017. I was a few episodes into starting up a new podcast and decided it was time to step up from my dependable but tiny Samson Go Mic in favor of something a little more professional. I had been eyeing the universally beloved $129 Blue Yeti microphone for a while, and as soon as an Prime Day deal hit, I pulled the trigger without thinking twice. I didn’t know it at the time, but I had just made one of my best tech purchases ever.

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Create unparalleled recordings with your computer using Blue's best-selling family of Yeti USB microphones. Thanks to the proprietary tri-capsule technology, Yeti condenser microphones produce pristine, studio-quality recordings with legendary ease. And four different pattern settings offer incredible flexibility so you can record vocals for music, podcasts, Twitch streaming, videos, or even cryptozoology lectures in ways that would normally require multiple microphones.