The default Windows audio driver can’t handle the Blue Microphone Yeti Pro (and quite a few other Blue Mic products, but it’s no sweat, we just need to install the driver, so don’t worry) so we see This device cannot start (Code 10) Click on it and you’ll get even more detail: There’s the problem, the tiny yellow warning symbol next to the Blue USB Audio 2.0 device. Now you’ll see all the devices and peripherals hooked up to your PC: Now back up to the first set of Control Panel controls, where we clicked on “Hardware and Sounds” and this time click on “View devices and printers” instead. You want to look for “Manage audio devices”:Ĭlick on the “Recording” tab and, alas, you don’t see the Blue Microphone device:
You’ll move to a section with a ton of options related to devices and sound. For now, just click on “Hardware and Sounds”, as I’ve said: Below you’ll see I’ve highlighted “View devices and printers”, but we’ll come back to that. Look for the Hardware and Sound section and click on “Hardware and Sound”. To do that, go to “Control Panels” from the Start menu. Let’s start by confirming that your computer sees the microphone, it’s just the OS doesn’t know how to mount it and make it an available device. Even better, there’s a new driver from Blue Mic since I wrote this original tutorial! Go here to get it: Latest Blue Microphone Yeti Pro driver for Windows 7, Windows8 and even Windows 10 beta.
