Hello,
I am currently using a Yeti Blue mic. I am experience noise and hissing on ONLY the right channel. When I use the left only, it sounds perfectly clear and I’m not sure what is going on. I have tried all the noise reduction effects and it hasn’t made much difference. Even tried normalizing.
I have attached 3 audio files. 1 R/L, 1 R, 1 L so you can hear the difference. I am using a Surfacebook 2 with Windows 10.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
Why are you recording as stereo? The Blue Yeti microphone is a mono microphone.
So it does 
So that begs the question, which pick-up pattern is selected?
It’s multi-pattern, not multi channel. It’s still a mono microphone with the ability to direct where it gets its sound from by switching around capsules.
When I use the left only, it sounds perfectly clear
Use the drop-down menu on the left and Split Stereo to Mono. Delete the bad track. The one remaining track will play to both left and right speakers.
I have tried all the noise reduction effects and it hasn’t made much difference.
I think that’s the phrase that pays. I don’t think it’s a Yeti problem. If Noise Reduction fails, then you’re listening to a computer playback problem, or you are getting your stereo in an unusual way. Again, it’s a mono microphone. If you insist on stereo (two identical tracks), you can duplicate the one clean track. Use the drop-down menu from the top track and Make Stereo Track.
If you have a technique that gives you one clean performance, then do your recordings that way. That will give you a deliverable product while you figure out where your problem is coming from.
Koz
Please try a test recording in Windows “Voice Recorder” and let us know if the result is the same.
Checkout the samples that 3alphasbulls posted. The audio in the right channel is clearly damaged. (Sounds to me like one of the capsules is faulty, though there are other possibilities.)
Did the same thing when I did this. Tried last night.
I also tried a different pair of headphones. Same issue. Is it possible it’s something with my sound card?
Yo this worked! Splitting it to mono and muting/deleting the bad track. It’s weird though right?
Yo this worked! Splitting it to mono and muting/deleting the bad track. It’s weird though right?
Yes. That’s the desperation method. Get the show out the door.
Can you try a different computer? If that’s damaged, the microphone is probably fried.
Koz
The problem is not your sound card. USB microphones bypass the computer sound card.
Here’s a thought. The Yeti can switch between multiple patterns: Figure of 8 (sound from front and back), Omni-directional (sound from all over) etc. Switch between the different patterns and see which ones are damaged. The Yeti connects its different capsules in different ways to do these tricks. It might be valuable to know which patterns fail.
Koz