Otherwise whats a decent mic that uses a 3.5mm jack input of similar quality and price to the Yeti. Perhaps someone here has a solution to the USB problem i haven't come across yet. I was considering getting a Blue Yeti USB as an upgrade to my headset mic for recording, but after much searching and finding that the problem is related to microsofts handling of USB and nothing to do with the mic itself I'm now not sure what to do.
And the last is to run a VM of windows 7 and use it to record the mic audio, which is a painful solution that i'd rather not use. Another is to buy some sort of mixer that can take a usb mic and so long as it has its own drivers then the problem does not arise. One workaround is to use a software equaliser to boost the mic, but this adds so much static its not a real solution if you're using the mic for anything where quality is important. There is an extremely long windows support thread where a microsoft dev was able to replicate the problem, but no one has done anything to fix it.
So this problem is common and after much searching i'm pretty confident i know where the issue lies.
