I am now the proud owner of a YETI Microphone. As an aspiring (70 year old) musician, my intended goal is to record some of my time at my piano. The microphone output plugs directly into my computer USB connector, through an 8-foot cable (supplied).

As my computer is a tower type pc, and my piano is a grand style Kawai, located in adjacent rooms, I am faced with the problem of extending the cable length (or buying a laptop). Does anyone have any experience with such a mic, and/or extending the length of a USB cable on a computer accessory DEVICE? Seen people use a powered USB HUB between devices and computers to extend communications. Longest I have seen work was about 25 feet between the computer and the printer.

You COULD give this a TRY by getting a long USB 2.0 cable and place a powered USB hub between the MIC and PC. I think the longest cables are 16 FT for USB 2.0. So you could theoretically go 32FT, but your probably looking at 16FT from PC to HUB, then whatever the distance is for the cord length of your MIC. The USB Powered HUB acts like a signal booster/repeater in this situation. USB is not suppose to exceed 16ft 5 inches for cable length, but you can go longer with a repeater such as Powered USB HUB which is powered off a wall outlet. If too long you can run into latency issues etc with device handshake, so it should work, but there is a small chance you could run into problems.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182057 Here is an example of Powered USB HUBIf it has a 3.5mm audio connection, I would use that instead of the USB. I am sure those are capable of traveling long distances WITHOUT signal degradation. You can also buy very cheap long extension cables for them.