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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about the yeti Pro
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microphone from Blue microphone now you
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notice I got two of these the reason is
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that there's a little bit of a hiccup in
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what Apple did with the latest version
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of Mac OS El Capitan and what's happened
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is that if you have an older one of
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these Yeti Pro microphones then you
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probably noticed that like unfortunately
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some other usb2 devices when you plug it
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into your iMac or your MacBook Pro or
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any other device that's running LC capan
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that has a usb3 port that it doesn't
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actually talk properly to the usb2
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device anymore so the characteristic
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that I saw with my old Yeti Pro was that
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I would plug it in and it would see the
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microphone the microphone would go away
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then it would see the microphone then
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the microphone would go away and it
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became unusable so I reached out to the
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blue microphone people and here's what
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they told me they told me that the more
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recent generation of their microphone
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actually should work fine and here let
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me show you the difference I'll give you
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close-ups too but on the old one at the
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USB port it only has a USB symbol but on
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microphones it actually says has the
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word USB on it too and if you have one
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that has the word USB you should be good
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to go failing that then another way to
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solve the problem is to use a powered
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here we go a powered USB connector and
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this one's the Bellon and this
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unfortunately has to plug into the wall
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it's to do with the power levels on the
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USB itself so even if it's not your
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microphone if you have a printer or
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something that's not working using a
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power um USB port can actually help and
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this one this is the Belin four port
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powered USB it's 17 bucks it's not like
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it's this massive investment for you and
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of course you get more USB connections
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out of it so there's another plus anyway
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that should solve the problem the third
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possibility is that you can actually go
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ahead and back up to Yus so the yite
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version of Macos 10 actually works fine
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with USB 2 devices now you're thinking
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well I don't want to back up OS I don't
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know that I need to buy or want to buy a
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powered Hub and then have to deal with
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that but I still love my Yeti and I
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totally understand they're really great
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microphones so if your device is less
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than 2 years old I would encourage you
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to reach out to Blue microphone support
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and talk to them about the problem and
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if they're more than 2 years old and
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what they've said is if you tried the
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powered USB and that still isn't
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remedying the problem they still see
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this as an Apple issue and I think that
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they're reasonable I think that's legit
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um but they will work with you on that
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so you can hit them up through the blue
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microphone website and like I said
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ideally you get the newer one and the
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newer one solves the problem now there's
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also some stories some stuff I've read
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online about some people got an update
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to elcapitan and that's alleviated the
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problem all I know is couple of weeks
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ago when I went to plug in my Yeti Pro
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to do some podcasting
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it didn't work and I was rather upset
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about that so that's how this all came
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about and it's a it's a complicated
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problem and this is sort of as we all
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March forward with progress and
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technology and USBC and USB you know 3.0
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and all these more modern connections
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then sometimes some of the older
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peripherals end up having a problem so
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that's kind of what's going on here so
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Dave Taylor and I hope that'll help you
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figure out what's going on with your own
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Yeti Pro or your other USB 2 devices on
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an L Capitan version or who knows the
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version after this might have the same
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problems of a USB 2 device on a usb3
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plug on an Apple computer that's a lot
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of stuff to think about anyway hope this
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helps you out don't forget to check out
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the blue microphone support area um they
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actually gave me all this data so this
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what I'm saying should be completely in
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line with where they are hopefully and
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I'll catch you in my next video
