This is the review of the comparison between two speakers from two different popular brands. The comparison here is between the Blue Yeti and the HyperX QuadCast microphones. There are day and night differences in their price range currently but not much difference in their features. To know which one is good for you to buy, go to the detailed review.

Blue Yeti	HyperX QuadCast
BUY NOW	BUY NOW
PROS	PROS
Multiple recording patterns. THX-certified sound quality. Record directly to your PC without an audio interface. Fantastic for the price.	Easy to use. Loud and clear audio. Shockmount and adapter for boom stand. Four polar patterns.
CONS	CONS
No multi-head setup. The wobbly plastic knobs make us wary about durability. No XLR output on the standard version.	USB only. May lead to a mega-expensive headphone purchase.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Detail Review:

INTRODUCTION:

Blue Yeti

The Blue Yeti is a well-known microphone in the market from the day of its launch itself. This microphone is retailing for around a hundred and thirty dollars currently. There are many microphones available in the market at this price range but they don’t provide four polar patterns at this price range they provide either one but the Blue Yeti does provide all four polar patterns at this price range.

HyperX QuadCast

The HyperX QuadCast microphone is absolutely outstanding and for anybody out there looking to get into streaming, podcasting, or just need a game microphone for voice-overs on Twitch, this microphone will definitely satisfy you. This microphone is retailing for around two hundred and seventy dollars currently which is among the higher price range.

DESIGN: 

Blue Yeti

The black-colored Blue Yeti does have a matte finish there on the external part of this mic. This microphone actually looks good even I can put it on my shelves just like a decoration whenever I’m not using it. They do make these things in all different kinds of colors they do make it in blue as well as in silver. They come in different color variations but I personally love the black Edition.

In the bottom of the microphone right there, there are ports for a 3.5-millimeter jack and also, for a micro USB connector which gives the power to go towards the microphone. You can’t just take a five-watt charger or like an iPad charger and power this thing on. For some reason it does need a laptop a working computer plugged into it, in order to give it power. You can connect a 3.5-millimeter audio jack to your camera while recording a video or you can also connect your headphone to this microphone and hear how do you sound through this mic.

There’s a mute button on the front of this microphone and the mute button also has a LED which lets who know when it is muted and unmuted. Something else that is really great about this microphone is there is a volume button right there on the front of it below the mute button and you can hook in your headphones there, so that way you can listen to what you’re recording. On the bottom of the stand, there is rubber which kind of feet that help to hold it in place. On the back of this thing, there is a knob that says gain.

HyperX QuadCast

As far as physical features there’s actually a pretty good amount of things are there on this. First, it does come pre-attached to a mic stand, so you elevate around a few inches off your desk but also lets you adjust the angle depending on how far you’re sitting away from it. It’s only maybe like a thirty-degree level of adjustment there but it’s better than nothing.

The mic also has a pre-attached shock mount, so if you have this on your desktop it’s really gonna eliminate any sort of micro-vibrations that would be picked up. It helps in eliminate any frequencies that may be coming from if you bang your desk slightly if there are vibrations from your hard drive of your PC, so shock mounts always do a good thing for a mic. Then on the bottom underneath there is the HyperX logo.

The bottom of the mic is actually a volume dial there this is how you control the gain, and you can see it has these five little dots that are going to be kind of an indicator for the level of adjustment and which direction it goes in to either increase or decrease the volume, and this dial is very smooth. On the back of the mic, you have your dial to switch between the four pick up patterns. You have stereo, omnidirectional, cardioid, and bi-directional pick-up patterns and also, you can easily switch between all four. There are actually three condenser capsules inside this one mic. Down in the back of the mic there, you have a headphone jack so you can plug in your headphones and actually monitor what you’re hearing on the mic as well as getting your PC audio right through the microphone.

Then on the top of the mic, is actually a mic mute button which is touch-sensitive, so all you have to do is just touch it and it’ll quickly mute your mic. When it’s powered on you’ll see the mic is illuminating in a really nice vibrant red color then when you touch the top of the mic, the light will turn off letting you know that it is muted. The grille of the mic is a pop filter which will help illuminate plosives and that’ll make your sound a lot less harsh which is always a good thing.

FEATURES:

Blue Yeti

To get this microphone powered on, you don’t need a whole lot of things you need pretty much two cables here one is a standard 3.5-millimeter cable like how your old headphone jacks used to be with a double layer or a double loop there. Another cable you need is a micro-USB to standard USB cable.

One of the great things about this microphone is that it’s got a sound card that’s built into the microphone. If you are gaming and you have sound coming in and you’ll be able to hear the gaming sound and your voice. That way you’re not like screaming or talking loud or try to get over the sound that’s coming in. So, it does have a sound card, it’s built-in there, and therefore you can hear yourself and the game which is a unique feature with this particular microphone.

Another great feature with this microphone is you can take this microphone off of a stand when it’s on. As far as the stand, it does have a pretty good weight to it. So, it’s pretty heavy and it does have some good weight to it. As far as the gain control, you need to keep the gain knob a little bit more halfway that seems to be like the golden area where it picks up the best type of audio.

HyperX QuadCast

HyperX is obviously known for a lot of gaming peripherals, PC hardware, as you’re very familiar with them. I’ve always been a huge fan of their gaming headsets and they always had pretty good mics. The first thing you are going to get out of the box is your actual microphone,
also inside the box, they include a nine-foot braided micro USB cable, so you won’t have any issues connecting this to your PC, and as well as a little adapter for taking this microphone on the stand.

This microphone comes with its black and red appearance which is obviously right on par with their branding black and red. As far as the design of this microphone, it is just very sleek, and it looks pretty nice. Although when it comes to your microphone, its appearance isn’t a big deal at all.  If you want to attach this microphone to something like a boom arm that you might already have, you have got an adapter for that purpose inside the box.

The knob there in the bottom is more like a level of adjustment, more like a volume direction indicator but it would have made more sense if they were maybe more spread out equally, that’s on the bottom, not just this little cluster there. I personally used that little five dots there as a volume indicator because this is where the majority of your gain is gonna be noticed because there isn’t much really beyond that first and last dot here.

PERFORMANCE:

Blue Yeti

When I tested out the performance of this microphone, at first I tested out the omnidirectional polar pattern from all the four available polar patterns in this mic. In this mode, the mic will pick up sound from all the way around the microphone and pickups everything from all the sides. Then I tested out the stereo polar pattern in which the mic will pick up the sound from the right and the left side and will sound through the left and the right headphone.

Then we do have the cardioid pattern in which this mic will pick up the sound from the sides and from the front only not from the back. Maybe this pattern is for those gamers who are gaming, they would probably use this pattern so, that way it picks up their voice not maybe their game or whatever noise is coming behind there.

The last mode is a bi-directional mode which is kind of like the interview mode because if there are two people sitting in front of each other and having a conversation it would pick up the voice of the person sitting directly in front and the voice of the person directly behind the microphone. This is a pretty universal microphone that has all the different settings. There are a lot of different microphones out there that you can buy and some of them are just omnidirectional microphones or some are set up to pick up directly in front of.

HyperX QuadCast

This mic can perform four different polar patterns modes and the first one is stereo, with stereo mode this mic is gonna be more so picking up the left and right channels that’s what stereo is. So, when you record with the stereo mode you are gonna listen to different things from the left and right headphones. This is not really a big thing for streaming and doing voiceovers obviously.

The next mode is gonna be omnidirectional which will pretty much pick up everything from every side, there are no exclusions here. Everything at a 360-degree circle is going to be picked up with the omnidirectional mode. The third mode is the cardioid mode and most podcasting mics are a cardioid pickup pattern because that’s the most popular. With the cardioid mode, this mic will pick up the sound from the front, and from both sides except the back. The cardioid pickup pattern pretty much sounds the best for streaming or voiceover.

The last mode in the polar pattern in this mic is the bi-directional mode. The bi-directional mode is pretty much the opposite of stereo, like in stereo mode the mic pickups everything only from the left and right sides while in the bi-directional pattern it mic will pick up everything only from the front and back of it. For me, it doesn’t sound too different from the stereo and I think cardioid is what sounds the best.

WHICH TO BUY?

In my opinion, you can buy the Blue Yeti microphone if you want a good microphone at a lower price with all the four polar patterns, with a mute button, volume knob, and the gain knob in the microphone itself. If you want a better sounding microphone that has shock mount features along with the features that the Blue Yeti have then you should buy the HyperX QuadCast microphone. But still, I personally love the Blue Yeti at its lower price range.

Expert Reviews of Blue Yeti:

By Podcastinsights
Even though the Blue Yeti tends to be popular with beginners (it was the first external microphone I bought), I find that it performs much better in the hands of someone slightly more experienced with audio recording.

By TechRadar
The Blue Yeti is a great option for anyone who just wants to plug in and play without spending hours tweaking audio settings.

By cnet
The Yeti is one of the richest sounding, sonically flexible USB microphones money can buy, but its large size makes it inconvenient for portable applications.

By MusicRadar
For podcasting, streaming, and video conferencing, the Blue Yeti is still as simple and easy to use as ever. Highly recommended.

By the podcast host
I think it’s a great option for someone looking for a simple set-up, but also a decent level of sound quality. The Yeti certainly sounds better than its little brother, the Blue Snowball, which is another popular starter microphone.

Expert Reviews of HyperX QuadCast:

By SoundGuys
The HyperX Quadcast is an ultra-credible USB mic that takes aim at other units in the sub-$200 price range. Despite its technical limitations, it can credibly record a podcast, stream, or other vocal-centric application short of professional recording. The red lights also make it abundantly clear when you’re life, and when you’re not.

By venturebeat.com
With the QuadCast, HyperX has continued to show that it understands how to appeal to gaming fans. While it knows that great sound is crucial, it added multiple features that it knows will keep people happy long after they spend their money. On top of that, the QuadCast is really hitting the right price. At $140, it is right in the range of a Blue Yeti, but it’s actually a better deal since it comes with…

By PCMag
Gamers who want to stream or record commentary can make do use of a good gaming headset with a solid boom microphone. But if you’re serious about putting your voice on the internet, you should seriously consider a USB microphone. The clarity and richness you can get from a decent USB mic outshine even the best headset boom mic, and that’s worth your attention for content creation. The HyperX QuadCast S is a gaming-focused USB microphone designed for…

By PCGamer
In its quest to inject RGB into everything on the planet, HyperX’s signature microphone, the Quadcast, is back with a colorful new look, as the HyperX Quadcast. The new dynamic RGB lighting adds a little something extra to an already great microphone. If everything else on your desk lights up in rhythmic unison…

By Tom’s Hardware
Kingston’s unusual design incorporating three diaphragms produces great sound at a low price. The Quadcast’s controls are also intuitive for any gamer or game streamer.