In the mean time, there are two main things I can think of.
How can I first diagnose if this is normal, and second, do something about it without building a whole recording studio just to accomodate one microphone?
I see videos online of people recording on the Yeti, doing podcasts and so on, with no special equipment, in a 'normal' room, and it sounds nothing like the echo I'm getting here.Įven with the gain way down and me speaking about 1 cm from the mic, it still sounds like a bathroom stall. I've gone as far as to make a 'cave' around the Yeti with a winter coat so it's nestled in a thick down coat with only about a 8' 'window' facing me as I record, but I can't discern any difference between that and no baffling at all. I'm recording in a small (10' x 10') office, with drywall and furniture, so it's *far* from an ideal environment, but the Yeti is *shockingly* echoey, regardless of the mic pickup pattern. I picked up a Blue Yeti for some not-really-professional demo stuff we need to do at work (I work at a place that makes Web videos from time to time, and while we always hire a pro to do the final recording, it's useful to have a decent mic to record VO for our demo work for clients as we make progress on a project).
