Logitech is releasing a brand new set of merchandise that may begin delivery on September twenty fourth and are aimed squarely on the likes of avid gamers, streamers, podcasters, and different creators. The massive one is the $149.99 Logitech G Yeti GX, a “broadcast-style” USB microphone with a heavy stand and RGB lighting.
The Yeti GX is a dynamic supercardioid microphone, which is a sort of unidirectional mic designed to concentrate on sound in entrance of the pickup relatively than behind the microphone. That’s factor in case you don’t need the noise of your keyboard overtaking your voice. It additionally means in case you transfer off-axis, your voice rapidly falls away, however the trade-off might be price it whenever you’re contending with poor recording areas. Soren Pedersen, Logitech’s world product supervisor, described it as having the vibe of a Shure SM7, a preferred broadcaster microphone.
After all, it wouldn’t be a gamer mic with out configurable RGB lighting. There are two configurable LEDs — one in a circle on the again of the mic and one behind the Logitech G emblem on its aspect — and you’ll set varied animated results or simply select a particular shade for the lights. An LED stripe within the digital quantity wheel is both crimson or blue, relying on whether or not the mic is muted.
Urgent the quantity wheel activates Good Audio Lock, a function Pederson described as a “security internet” to maintain the mic from clipping and distorting when, say, a streamer will get excited and begins yelling about one thing. The mic does this with an analog limiter — such as you’d discover on the Razer Seiren V2 X — which compresses the sign whenever you get too loud to cease the mic from distorting. The function additionally makes use of a built-in downward expander to decrease the quantity of background noise or undesirable echo in a foul recording setting.
The mic ships with a USB-C to USB-A cable desktop mount however might be hooked up to a normal increase mic stand as nicely, with adapters for five/8-inch and three/8-inch connections.
Logitech additionally introduced the $59.99 Yeti Orb, a small ball-style USB mic much like the Yeti Snowball. The mic has a extra muted look than the Snowball, with a cloth-covered entrance and with configurable RGB lights on high. Just like the Yeti GX, it has a USB-C port on the again for connecting to your pc. The Orb is a condenser cardioid mic, and Logitech says it can additionally reduce background noise. It can be faraway from its small desktop stand to be used with a increase stand.
Logitech additionally introduced an up to date model of its Litra Beam X LED mild bar, the $149.99 Litra Beam LX. The LX is dual-sided, with a tunable (2700K – 6500K) white bar like the unique on one aspect and an RGB mild on the opposite. Senior product advertising and marketing supervisor Andrew Siminoff stated the lights are UL-certified for secure, all-day use. The sunshine has 1/4-20-inch-threaded fittings for mounting both on its finish or the center of the sunshine, and it connects both through USB-C or Bluetooth.
All three work with Logitech’s G Hub app for configuring lighting results, in addition to vocal results and particular audio profiles by the software program’s Blue Voice function presets. In case you have a number of Logitech Lightsync units, you possibly can synchronize lighting results, too, in case you actually need to be awash in strobing, pulsing RGB colours when you sport. Logitech says they’ll even be appropriate with Home windows Dynamic Lighting, by which you’ll be able to sync lighting results with different non-Logitech lighting.
It’s price noting — and I accomplish that with some nostalgic unhappiness — that these are the primary Yeti microphones that don’t function the “Blue” branding since Logitech purchased the corporate in 2018. In a FAQ earlier this yr, Logitech stated it will not use the Blue model in its product names, and as a substitute will use it “to explain our applied sciences.”
Pour one out for previous Blue, my buddies.
