Samson C03u vs Blue Yeti - For First Microphone?

[DuckThis]

Ok guys, I narrowed my search to two microphones.
I wanto buy my first microphone for doing vocals and I need your
opinion on which microphone to choose between these two?

Samson c03u or Blue Yeti

They are around the same price range...
Btw instead of c03u I could buy c03 and additional XLR to USB adapter.


Thanks!

 

[moresound]

If you really MUST purchase a USB microphone then go with the YETI.

 

[DuckThis]

If you really MUST purchase a USB microphone then go with the YETI.

well i think i rather buy with usb than a xlr mic which must have a preamp with atleast the same price as the mic...

 

[moresound]

Then the Yeti will do you fine but only if your just going to record say like a single vocal or such. For when you get into multi tracking with an USB microphone you'll notice that latency issues will become your enemy!

 

[Scrumper]

with an USB microphone you'll notice that latency issues will become your enemy!

But if you use an XLR mic with a USB or Firewire audio interface, wouldn't you still be likely to run into the same latency issues? I only ask this because I had terrible trouble with a nice condenser mic (Rhode NT-1A) and an Edirol firewire audio interface; latency like you wouldn't believe. I then went for a Samson CO1U usb mic and, while it's a long way from perfect, it works consistently well with my Mac/Logic setup.

 

[TruBLUE]

I think you can cut down maybe get rid of it entirely some of the latency issues by changing a few settings on the recording program you use or some have settings that will recognizes latency and alters the playbac according to how much latency I have done it with sonar x1....... From what ive read the Samson c03u is better for vocals the yeti has a wider range of things it can record but the co3u is more for vocal recording then anything