Anyone else remember the Blue Yeti? Of course you do—especially if you're as old as me. I went for the Samson C01U back in the day, because I was a little contrarian and wanted to follow in my then-beloved TotalBiscuit's footsteps, but most people went for the Yeti. Logitech acquired Blue back in 2018, and these many years later the company has cooked up a new version, the Yeti 2, and it's chock-full of AI—or rather, machine learning—baked into its actual hardware.

If that was the whole story I'd probably give my 'not more AI' sigh, but after having my, ermm, mouth (?) on it in Warsaw at Logitech's G Play event this week, I'm impressed. It looks like a Yeti, smells like a Yeti, and sounds like a Yeti—that is, itsounds great, from what I could tell during my brief time testing it. But the main draw here is the combination of its OLED screen, its customisation options, and its machine learning-aided voice following and noise reduction.

Oh, and the price tag, too, which I was expecting to be sky-high but is $160/£140. That's still expensive, but well within the high-end USB mic bracket we'd expect.

There are tons of customisation options in the G Hub software, but it's also intended to be plug-and-play, which is where the screen comes in handy. There are some default modes for things like music, podcasting and so on, so you can leave it as-is or change to one of those, or you can dive in a bit deeper right on the screen.

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