 What's up ladies and gents what's up ladies and gents today is gonna be a slightly different video And I'm going to be reviewing the blue microphones yeti x world of warcraft edition Obviously I myself am a gamer and I'm gonna be reviewing this mic from kind of that point of view So I don't know a lot about microphones in general I don't know a lot about what all the settings do all that sort of things So I'm gonna go into it kind of with that first and foremost in mind And we're gonna see how this holds up And what my overall opinion of the microphone is and show you some of the settings Do a little bit of a deep dive into the software and just get a kind of overall feel for what we think about the mic So the yeti x software is actually incorporated into logitech g-hub same as the rest of the logitech gear So the settings are initially I'd say a little bit overwhelming a little bit intimidating for somebody that doesn't really know What all these different things mean? There's a lot of different sliders and You get a small explanation of what it does but in terms of like the sound itself I Would not know how that sort of translates into an audio improvement or or you know something that sounds Less ideal I guess However, I did have an issue Initially where when I was shouting it was kind of distorting and It turns out the input gain was too high and I was able to discover this after just like a little bit messing around with the two Sliders I had I believe initially had master output level on max and the input gain was quite high and due to that It was just like popping at the top So yeah messed around with it a little bit and managed to manage to figure out that lowering input gain actually made it sound a lot better So even somebody with really, you know little experience with this sort of thing is is able to kind of go into it Have a have a look at it and mess around and come out with you know Something that sounds better or more optimal ideal for what you want and I guess that's kind of My first point as somebody that is not experienced and does not want super, you know high Technicalities from the microphone. You just want your voice to sound good, right? You don't want to Have a microphone that is making everyone else listening to you cringe, right? So right now. I think that this definitely Checks the box of sound quality is is where you want it to be I'm really happy with it. I think it's an improvement on my previous mic was not which was not cheap To be fair my last might I think was like a hundred and forty pounds. I think the Yeti X is like a hundred and sixty Pounds on Amazon and I think the Yeti X world of Warcraft editions going for something slightly more like 180 something like that. I'm not sure if it's on sale yet So yeah, it's it's definitely an improvement for the increase in price And it's something that I'm definitely going to continue to use in the future So I'm happy with that. I guess the next next sort of thing that it offers is And this is I guess a big one for me is is the direction of the microphone So you don't want your keyboard picking up significantly when you're gaming That's you know, if you've ever played games with someone there's always that one guy whose whose keyboard is really really loud through the mic And you just like bro just got a mute like get out. You don't want that, right? So this mic actually has four mics inside it and you can adjust the pattern of how those mics are picking up So right now I have it on cardioid and you can actually change that on the back here as well there's a little button And cardioid is sort of front-facing only so what that will do is ideally that reduces the amount of Kind of sound that's coming in from the back. I eat my keyboard So if I'm talking right now and then I start typing The noise of it is relatively low you can hear it, but it's pretty standard on a microphone But it's relatively low in comparison So if we then go to change it to Say by action, I believe this is front and back So the difference now if you listen to my voice and then hear me typing It's quite considerable And this is obviously a good setting that you can now use if you're doing like an interview or something Or maybe there's two of you playing you can change the direction that the mic picks up from so then you can basically pick up yourself and somebody else So there's there's different situations where you would now be able to use the microphone And that's kind of my next point is Customizability it has obviously as you can see by the setting so much customizability for different situations and different issues you may face Yeah, okay, it's a little bit kind of intimidating to start with but If anything that you really don't understand I guess these days you can just use you You know and there's guides everywhere on that sort of thing But honestly, I think for me it's something that you would just I would just go into and just mess about with for five ten minutes and just see how The thing you're changing changes the sound and if you like that So that's kind of the sound Settings all neatly in one place very optimized. I would say But as this is the world of Warcraft edition, we also have an effects tab If you get the blue yeti x, I believe you'll just have this blue voice tab with the world of Warcraft edition You also have these effects and you can change the way your voice sounds Now there are some effects already loaded in these are the standard ones, but you can also create custom ones so the cool thing here is again you have this sort of This area of like sliders things to turn off and on and you can literally just mess around with all these different settings combine them switch them turn them on and off and That will end up creating a different kind of voice Preset I guess so if we start off with a deep one, which is Warcraft walk now I sound Sound very different And there's a few different ones we can go for gnome and now I'm talking like a gnome Or we can go for gnome extreme So this one is Actually one of my favorite ones I Always get really really It's kind of self-conscious when I've got these things on side just figured that I you know what I don't know what to say But this demon I guess makes you sound pretty badass So if people aren't expecting you to suddenly sound like this you can just boss the item and give people quite a show Or you can just go for the the old you could all fashion it and This one's a big favorite might as well. I actually tried to use this once to convince people. I was lagging But I didn't quite pull it off But yeah, we've got some custom ones as well One that once I made And this actually only took me like five minutes to make up sure I could make it better This was Yeah, this is this is as close as I can get it to replicate my undead's voice But I'm sure there's there's more things than I could play with to To slightly improve the sound and make us any better That's it only took five minutes on this We can go back to the good old-fashioned Romeo. Yeah, this is this is probably my favorite one And this one's actually you can play here is based off the ork one like I'm gonna tweak it a little bit more But yeah, this is this is right now my My favorite thing to play around with and troll people with Um, so yeah, that's that's the kind of custom effects and again It's there's so much customizability with it and you can kind of be really creative and make your own Your own voices in such like an easy an easy way Guess is what I'm trying to say. So if there's somebody that doesn't know what they're doing, uh, it's a lot of fun and and yeah Really re-optimized But that's not all it's got. It's got a sampler as well Let's take the the Romeo your whistle for quick Continue Uh, so it's also got a sampler and this also has the uh option to import your own sounds But yeah, what you can do is you can fight for azeroth play your own voice clips or sound clips or whatever from world of warcraft um so if you're streaming or whatever and Something funny happens or whatever you can play some random sound effect. I'll need to try and find something funny Um, we've got the imp I guess we've got the murloc If somebody does something stupid Uh, and you can actually bind these if you've got some other logitech gear You can actually bind it to the gear. So I'll show you that at the end. But yeah, we'll bind the murloc to my mouse binds Uh, so that yeah, when you press that bind you can play the sound by which is actually so cool um Makes it a lot quicker than literally going into the uh The software I'm pressing it, right? What else have we got interface I know there were some that were like super troll. Let me find it So, yeah, I mean if you really want to uh drive people away from from your stream, you can just start going ham spamming these I might uh might give that a go later But yeah, so there's a lot of uh, a lot of options to To get trolling with these as well, uh Some that can be used for pure comedy purpose So yeah, that's the that's the sampler We also have lighting so Uh, the way that the mic kind of differs from the Original yeti x as well is the it's I guess you can see it on the screen There's custom kind of runes as this is like the volume bar. So whenever you are talking these kind of light up Um, and I will I'll turn the right mic around and give you a quick look at that quickly change So you should be able to hear me now from the back No, yeah, you should be able to hear me now from the back And as you can see the volume, uh of the input is Well, I can see it on the on the camera on OBS is clearly popping up and down As I talk so I can see it's working And then you can if you do do you mute, you know your mom or whatever walks in the room, which I think is really, um Really handy for a gamer, you know people walking in your room all the time. You don't always want that on on comms Uh, so I think that's a really cool addition and a really, um Really it looks good right while you're doing it as well. So yeah, the uh The world of warcraft edition design slightly different as you you can see So I've switched it back to cardioid now and yeah, you can change the colors Pretty much to whatever you want So that's the color of the non muted button and then obviously we can change the muted color Uh, and yeah, you can change it. This is like it sort of fades in and out probably should have done this before turning it around but Nothing too crazy here Uh, and then obviously you can do the same thing with the mute one. So it's it's It's more of a quality of quality of life again, customizability Um, and then you can change the color of the runes and how they peak and whatnot as well Um, and then you also have the option to Plug your headphones into the microphone itself Uh, and this allows you to Uh Decide how much of the mic you're hearing in your own Uh headphones So right now I have that set to basically none. I don't want to hear my own voice When I'm gaming when I'm streaming But if you're recording something where you do want to you know be able to hear slightly how you're you know how you're sounding Then that could be very useful So yeah, it saves also obviously plugging your your headphones into the back of the pc So I have it plugged into the mic right now and it's just getting quality of life I think one of the I guess I guess I want to try and like say some downsides honestly, but To be honest the biggest downside for me was like the microphone is a lot more kind of Robust I think than my old microphone. It's a lot heavier. It's It feels Like a better quality microphone, but also with that Men that it completely crippled my old flimsy boom arms. I had to get a new boom arm Um, which I guess is a nice problem to have but yeah Uh now I uh have a nice sturdy boom arm and I need to find a new location for it Because it's somewhat covering my left hand screen. So the old setup that I had doesn't work Uh, not that it's gonna be significantly worse, but you know right now I'm making do So that was all of the software functionalities Um, I've seen a you know, obviously there's a lot of reviews on different products out there and I feel like a lot of them often are from quite a technical perspective and I wanted to try and create something from like a streamer's Or gamer's perspective that's you know a little bit more What the average kind of? Person wants out of the microphone, which honestly, I think is just voice quality and just ease of use So I think that this microphone Definitely checks those boxes It's probably the best microphone or desk microphone. I've ever used full stop um I think that if you're a walker fan and you want to mess around with the voice changer and the sound bites and stuff like that Then you know go nuts. It's worth it for sure. You'll have a lot of fun with it If you are just looking for a solid microphone with good voice quality Then the yeti x is actually the same hardware. So that's definitely one to look at Uh, that's all I've got for you for now though So thank you very much for watching and have a good one