This is the review of the comparison between two speakers from two different brands such as the Blue and the Rode. The comparison here is between the Blue Yeti Pro and the Rode NT1. There is around a hundred and ten dollars difference in their price range currently. There is also a difference in their features and performances. To know which one is good for you to buy, go to the detailed review.

Blue Yeti Pro	Rode NT1
BUY NOW	BUY NOW
PROS	PROS
Very good sound quality. Can be used as a standalone microphone with a mixer or as a USB microphone. Versatile. Sturdily built.	The Integrated shock mount and pop shield is a good design. Stonkingly good value for money. The NT1 is able to produce crystal clear sounds with its ability to pick up the smallest vocal nuances in any kind of performance.
CONS	CONS
Can take a bit of setting up. Large and heavy so not very portable. Pricey for a USB mic.	Lack of pad makes close-mic’ing loud sources tricky. None worthy of mention to be honest.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Detail Review:

INTRODUCTION:

Blue Yeti Pro

The Blue Yeti Pro is one of the higher price range microphone from the Yeti series microphones. This microphone is retailing for around three-hundred and eighty dollars. This microphone gets connected by both the USB and the XLR. As this is a USB microphone, it gets connected just by plug and play system. This microphone also has four polar patterns.

Rode NT1

This is an XLR condenser microphone which means you will need a USB audio interface, which has phantom power to make this microphone work. The Rode NT1 microphone is retailing for around two hundred and seventy dollars. Definitely, it is a little bit spendy but it’s not too bad considering everything you get with it, and honestly, the quality you get. 

DESIGN: 

Blue Yeti Pro

It actually advertises three capsules within the head of the microphone, and actually, those three capsules will give you a variety of polar patterns to use for this microphone. It offers a mute button, so if you just if you were just talking yet to sneeze or cough you can engage the mute button, and it’ll just off the microphone. It also has a volume knob as well, so you can actually monitor the sound of your voice within your headphones that you connect directly to the microphone, and that’s really good.

The desktop stand has a solid quality, it’s a really heavy weighted stand, and that’ll really hold your microphone into place. That has screws on the side, so you cannot adjust the articulation of the microphone. As it is a weighty stand, so your microphone is not gonna tip and fall over as some other lesser tripod microphone stands. On the back of the microphone, we have our gain knob so you can actually uh play with the gain that’s coming from the microphone to your recording source, and you can adjust that in real-time. I have found that whenever I play with it while I’m recording, the microphone just picks up a whole lot of noise, just turning the gain knob introduced a whole lot of static and noise to the microphone.

Rode NT1

As far as the build quality of the microphone, it feels pretty amazing, it has an all-metal construction, it has some substantial weight to it, and it just feels like it’s really well built. The pouch on the other hand doesn’t offer too much protection but it should protect the microphones capsule from collecting dust. The shock mount is a plastic construction but it feels like it’s pretty high quality. The pop filter is pretty darn nice because it has a dual layer to help disperse plosives even better than a regular pop filter.

FEATURES:

Blue Yeti Pro

A lot of times when you’re connecting your headphones to maybe a mixer or maybe like a USB interface, there is a bit of a delay so you never have that really true one to one when you hear something coming going to your microphone and then to your headset and disturbing sometimes but this is a really great feature. The XLR connectivity on this microphone is more of a proprietary jack in the bottom and then there’s an XLR breakaway cable that comes with the microphone. The podcasters or YouTubers mostly use the USB portion of this as well.

I’m super impressed with the USB connectivity with this microphone as a lot of times whenever connecting USB some kind of USB microphone audio device to the computer I always get someone a whiner hiss but this thing is sounding clean as it can be, and there is no issue with the USB portion as well. As this includes USB, this microphone is sort of a plug-and-play it’s more like a plug-in driver than play. The reason why is this microphone offers 24-bit 192 K resolution audio is that it is super high that is four times the resolution of CD-quality audio. Also, this being a pro microphone you’ve got a Yeti microphone on top of a music stand or music arm and that is definitely a pro feature.

This microphone has four polar patterns, the first pattern is a stereo pattern, the pattern in which this microphone will use the capsules in the right and left sides to record the output will be heard from the right and left sides of your headsets. The next one is going to be an omnidirectional pattern, where the microphone picks up everything going around. at full 360 degrees. This is good when you have a roundtable conversation and people around you are all talking around, and whether it’s maybe for a serious podcast or maybe just for some kind of a brainstorming kind of situation, this will be a great ideal polar pattern within this microphone to pick up everything up.

The third pattern is the cardioid pattern and this is your normal polar pattern for condenser microphones as well, where it picks up the nice full round richness of your voice. The cardioid pattern is where this microphone will pick up the sound in a heart like a pattern. Then, the last pattern is the figure-8 pattern or the bidirectional pattern, and it records only from the front and the back.

Rode NT1

In the Box, you’re going to get the microphone, you get a microphone pouch, you get a shock mount, a pop filter, some documentation, and another I love Rode sticker. As far as the specs, this thing has a frequency response of 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz, a sensitivity of -29 decibels, a max SPL of 132 decibels, an impedance of a hundred ohms, and on the power options on the spec sheet it says it accepts a phantom power requirement of 24 volts or 48 volts. 

The build quality on this microphone is really very good, it feels very solid. When I pulled the accessories out for the first time I was very impressed. The Rode NT1 is a cardioid pressure gradient condenser microphone, this is a side address microphone with a one-inch capsule. This microphone has an equivalent noise level of 4 DBA, and this comes with a one-year warranty but a free extension to ten years, if you register your product. Both the NT1 and NT1-A are so quiet as these has noise level of 4 DBA and I love it. If you don’t know what DBA DB is like the actual measurement of what the loudness is but DBA is actually how the human ear perceives it.

A lot of beginners that are scared to spend over two hundred dollars, two hundred and fifty dollars on a microphone but if you are a beginner, I absolutely recommend buying this microphone first and foremost. This is a great microphone for music production, I think this is a great microphone for singers, I think this is a very good voice over microphone, and honestly, I think that this would be good for podcasting.

The background noise rejection on this microphone just isn’t good but that makes sense given the fact that, it’s a condenser microphone, this is a highly sensitive microphone. So, if you are a podcaster or youtuber or anyone that needs a microphone that’s gonna be moving stuff around this microphone is for you, in that scenario I would probably recommend a dynamic microphone. But if you are going to just be sitting there podcasting, or doing a voiceover or you are singing, I think that this would be an outstanding product.

PERFORMANCE:

Blue Yeti Pro

The Blue Yeti Pro microphone does sound full, it is a quiet microphone compared to the AT4040 microphone which was a little noisy. It might be just as quiet as the Rode NT1-A, definitely quiet than the AT4040. It’s extremely rich when it comes to recording vocals because as with most condenser microphones you’re not capturing a lot of basses because that’s what dynamic microphones are good at.

The condenser microphones capture and receive really crisp mids and highs, but the bass is not lackluster on here. It is a little bit ever-so-slightly like if you’re making up a drum kit, dynamic microphones would be better but you have to have seven mics and they’re all close proximity. So, this is really versatile, it’s not super good at any one thing but it’s really good at almost everything. 

Rode NT1

Overall, I think I love this microphone. It has a amazing full tone to it without having a boomy low end, and it sounds really alive and vibrant without having any shrill or annoying high frequencies. When I did the music test, I thought it sounded outstanding on the electric, the acoustic, and on the voice, and it even did a pretty good job at background noise rejection. On the frequency chart, it’s mostly flat the whole way through aside from like a very minor one to two decibel boost in the high end. That is a very big thing that I love about this microphone is, I do think it sounds good right out of the box. But also it’s a blank slate, you can do whatever you want with it and it fits a lot of people’s voices because of that.

It’s not accenting the high end too much, it’s not doing too much or too little in the bass area, it just sounds really good, and it sounds flat, and you can make different adjustments for different people’s voices, and so you just have this very moldable canvas when it comes to the NT1. That’s also one reason I love using it on singers, I feel like you can really get this microphone to shine for a lot of different people’s voices.

WHICH TO BUY?

Even though the Rode NT1 is an awesome sounding microphone, I’m not going to recommend it for everybody. If you want to improve the audio quality, if you want to make your podcast sound better, or you want your voiceover work to sound even more professional, I would 100% recommend the Rode NT1 microphone because its really a nice sounding microphone at lower price. If You want a microphone that connects by XLR and USB both and if you want a microphone that has four polar patterns to performs different functions, and if you are ready to afford that price range then go for the Blue Yeti Pro.

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