Microphone Test - Samson Meteor VS Yeti Blue 

"Some of _the_ best novels ever written" *50 Shades of Grey*

Now make a video where you read Fifty Shades with the Blue Yeti. All of it.

The Samson Meteor seems to favor Bass while the Go has more treble. The Yeti sounds quite balanced. The Meteor is not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but the Yeti is noticeably better and cleaner.

Jesus christ I have seen my fair share of mic comparisons but WHY HAS NO ONE BEEN DOING IT LIKE THIS EVER???? This is literally the best most fair mic comparison video I've seen, and straight to the point too.

A video where I get to hear your voice over and over again. I think god has heard my prayers.

The blue and meteor have the same 16bit quality. The difference is the ability to change modes (sterio, cardinal, omnidirectional, etc.) and there is gain control on the yeti.

I still find the webcam mic suprisingly good. Got the same webcam, at least the sound is really clear, even my shitty headset had worse quality than a lousy webcam also, you were holding it a little too close

You can definitely hear the difference from the Meteor to the Blue Yeti. Your voice sounds clearer and to me it picks up heights in your voice better and sounds less muffled. I can recommend both of them, as I owned the Meteor for a long time before switching to the Yeti

Thanks for the video, I almost bought a Blue Yeti, because I wanted better quality. (I have a meteor) but I can't justify the price for that little difference in quality when I already have the meteor. You saved me some money. Very good video.

For a second, I forgot you were in the U.K, so I was like 'Crap, those mics are heavy!"

Thanks mate. You really sold me on the Meteor. I can barely hear the difference between it and the Yeti. The Yeti smooths the jagged edges very slightly, but the Meteor sounds fuller sometimes

I happen to have just bought the samson meteor I'm so happy with this, because it's not large and has great quality

This is great! I just started looking into these mics, so this video was a godsend! I'm getting the Samson Go for now (budget). Though, my goal is going to be the Yeti, because I'm also a singer...and like doing a lot of songs at home. Thanks for the video.

"Some of the best novels ever..." Twilight, what?!??!?

Excellent review, purchased my Meteor today! Many thanks

I've had the Meteor for years, it's great.

I can hear the difference between the blue yeti and the samson meteor. It's rather slight. I think the meteor is picking up more bass whilst the yeti sounds like it is picking up a more natural tone of your voice when compared to the Go which also sounds pretty decent. I've been looking for a good microphone and I need one that will pick up my voice from a distance so it seems like I'm still going to have to go with the Yeti as you said that you have to be a bit closer with the meteor for it to pick up sound.

Now that is timing! i was just about to look up your How to improve audio video when you uploaded this

>samson meteor: "you don't know how incredibly breakable you are!" ain't that the damn truth

I got a Yeti and some of my friends said the train sound in the background improved a lot. lol

Thank you. This video helps

When you tested these mics, how far were you away from them? I would like to know does the "Samson Meteor" pick up sounds on say like 45cm ( little less than 1.5 ft)? Cheers

Thank you for the comparison

Meteor sounds better to me! The landscape has changed a lot since this video has come out and with streaming everyone seems to be preferring dynamic mics. I was deciding between the Samsung Meteor and Fifine AM8 and decided to get the Fifine due to minimizing typing noise from my mechanical keyboard.

Still prefer the meteorite for you videos, but probably just because I'm more used to it, and you've made your style accustom to it.

The Samson Meteor sounds bassy-er, but the Yeti has better overall mixing, I feel. The Meteor seemed too bassy.

bought the samon meteor, doubting if i should have gone for the yeti, now i'm happy with my purchase.

The Blue Yetis are just amazing.

I can tell the Yeti is better than all the others, but the Meteor Mic is a close second. I have a meteor mic on order but will get a yeti one day, if my podcast goes anywhere.

Great review and editting! You deserve more subs!

I think the samson meteor sounds way better than any of them... I was about to buy it, so this just confirmed my choice ! :D (Only 100$CAD :o)

I'm honoured to be early to a kliksphillip video.

the reason why the samson meteor mic and the blue yeti sound the same is because they have both a sample rate of 16bit/48khz, only the blue yeti pro has 24bit/192khz.

What a nice review. You only reviewed the sound tesr and i loved it.

I was going to say everything you did. The samsung go, sounded perfectly fine for me, and the last two I couldnt tell a difference

Samsun meteor seems to have a wider dynamic range, tks for review and good acting skills ;-)

Yeti sounds slighty fuller to me.

I already used my samson meteor now for about 1-2 years and I can agree that the sound quality is awesome! A friend of mine gave me the blue yeti a week ago and I can really hear no clear difference. So if you really dont need the modifiers (You normaly dont nees them) then you should buy yourself a samson meteor. I will give the blue yeti back to my friend because I clearly dont need it ^^

I think it's obvious that the blue yeti sounds sharper in this video. Notice how after he says something there's a bit of a trail, the blue yeti sort of mitigates this while preserving audio quality

I actually think the £60 Samson sounds nicer than the Yeti, the yeti doesn't sound as nice in the higher range. Could just be my audio setup though!

Meteor it is then ! Thanks for a real life demo !!

Blue Yeti has the great bass as the Samson Meteor, but a bit clearer sound. Clear is good.

Came across this video as I am researching microphones. Yes, the do sound close but the Yeti Blue records clearly regardless of how it's turned. Meaning, if the front is facing away from you it still picks up your voice. The Samson is not built that way. It only picks up your voice clearly when you speak facing the front of the mic. I suppose if I''m going save a few dollars I'll just be sure the Samson is in the position it needs to be in before I start talking/recording. On the other hand if I don't want to have to worry about that then I guess I would spend the extra money. Seems simple enough. LOL

Hahaaa.. love that you used the Twilight Saga for testing :DDD -- actually think the meteor sounds abit richer than the yeti... which surprises me, as Blue are far superior to Samson!

Straight to the point. I love it

Thanks for the video, mate. Helped a lot. I'll go with the moteor!

thank you i have been think about getting new microphone and this video has pushed me enough to go and buy it. now all i need is for you to do a video about the best new headphones to buy for under £40 so i can finally get rid of this set that is being held together with duck tape and luck.

I think the Samson Meteor sounds less bassy than the Blue Yeti

hi sir. i bought a samson meteor mic few days ago and it's all working well and set the levels of the mic correctly. my only problem is, when i used to record this mic on my DAW (reaper) there is this annoying hiss/static kinda sound on the background. i hope you can help me. thank you. :)

That feeling when you use your laptops built in microphone and people ask you what kind of microphone you use that has a.) zero echo (really) b.) perfect sound quality c.) picks up your voice even if you are two rooms away (now you wont get away with sneaky farting!)

They honestly all sound pretty decent

Love your review style!

This is a great comparison vid! very nice! thanks

I tuned out for like 5 seconds before you said the sample sentence, and coming back to hearing a guy making a video in the nude with the exception of high heels eep'd me the fuck out.

I like the yeti more. I think the meteor has too much bass, but they both sound good

Hahaha great video! i just got the Samson Metrorite usb for only £28 was only gonna get blue yeti, but for the prices, you can't go wrong :)

the yeti is the best....but the difference is subtle between the meteor...but the price is 40p less...so its a bang per buck

Something you need to consider is how the blue yeti sounds when yelling and maybe talking further away.

Thank you so much man i'm sold on the samson meteor

Thanks for the review mate got one off eBay for 45 bucks with a pop filter.

How hell you sound so great in Samson Meteor ? I got it and picks up everything that happens in my city!

Being an American, I was super confused when he said that the blue yeti was 100 pounds. Like holy shit that's heavy.

you can hear the difference when you close your eyes, it's pretty much the same though (between the most expensive ones)

Informative and brief. Nice.

Thanks! Am looking for info to buy my first mic and this is very useful.

IMO the Yeti sounds better, both the Meteor and Yeti sound very good

The Yeti is much clearer in my opinion, but its very clear to me he is WAY to close to his mic.

Very good video. thanks man.

I have a Samson Meteor, and I use it for recording my voice on Minecraft videos (since the game console mic doesn't come through to the capture card). I've found that it's extremely sensitive and picks up every tiny little bit of background noise, as well as the room echo. If you have a very quiet environment and are speaking directly into it, then the quality is pretty good - but for me, the background noise it picks up gets annoying...

Wait, you said the best novels, why did I hear something that sounded like Twilight?

I'm using the Samson GO Mic and it's horrible for gaming :(. Every noise in a range about 10 m will be heard, it's not really the mic for voice acting as well. The person which speaks directly into the mic won't be that louder than something in background. In your video the mic sounds pretty good, how could you remove this noise and still keep the organic sound of the voice? I've done some pretty good post-effecting :D.

Before investing in a microhpone, it's important to have reasonably good headphones. (Not gaming headset so to say)

Love my Meteor :-)

AT2020 masterrace!

Very helpful. Thank you.

Blue Yeti is the best microfon...I bought it and is great.

Meteor is probably the best out of the three for some reason.

wow didnt think i would find a klicksflip video, nice

However the meteor is much cheaper. The Blue yeti is not worth it because how little the change is. Meteor: 68$ Yeti: 180$

Honestly I thought the Samson Meteor sounded the best.

Great video, but i think I'll be going with a Blue Microphones "Snowball ICE". Looks small, comes at a nice price, and the reviews say its a quality mic :)

Personally, I prefer the Meteor mic from the Yeti. At least with the proper editing in Audacity.

5 years late but the blue yeti is better at picking up mid ranges, which for youtube videos would be meaningless but in music production means a lot

The Yeti had more "air noise". Like the P in "that's certainly a problem" at 1:33; the "was to" in "if I was too hasty" at 1:51 and the shortly after "even for" and "wasn't" - I could keep typing but you get the point. The Samson Meteor didn't have those muffled air noises. My question is: is that a bad aspect of the microphone or is it rather the uploader of this video doesn't know how to use it properly? What was he doing wrong if so?

The metor one is more squeakier and lowder and the yeti is soft and smooth

Samson Meteor it's not as good as everyone says but Blue Yeti is much better and price is too very good so thanks for the video I definitely buy Blue Yeti :)

I love the Meteor, although I do hear a very slight difference in clarity between it and the Blue Yeti. The Go product with bass increase sounds fine, but somewhat artificial compared to the other two. The Blue Yeti seems to provide the highest clarity and bass frequencies by default, with the Meteor having exactly the same bass frequencies but slightly less high range clarity. Nice comparison.

Webcam microphone is surprisingly not that bad

Just go the meteor and I love it

I really cant push my blue yeti to the quality you have, how do you do it phillip :(

how do you get such clean audio from the samson meteor mic? I have it but picks up random air from the background

The Blue seems to bring out that deep sultry voice of yours.. **wink** **wink**.. **nudge** **nudge**

I am using the meteor since forever really, never even thought of switching. And I still don't. Never understood peoples obsession with the yeti for one person youtube commentary. It seems like a waste of money for that. But I guess it is probably great for group recordings! even though I feel like everyone having a microphone on his own would be better for post editing and audio balance... but that is just me babbling here!

I'll buy the meteor thanks

Why did it take me so long to figure out he was reading Twilight

i like the Samson Meteor most i think. then the Samsung Go because of its Price

Yeti sounds better then Meteor, I think so because you sound closer o the Meteor, and a little less clear than the yeti.

Im getting the Meteor, bought it half price.

Do you think that I sould buy the meteor mic or the yeti, meteor costs half of what the yeti does in Sweden so yeah

This is the review I was looking for. Just curious, how far away were you from the Samson mic?