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Founder
  
Skipper Wise

Type of business
  
Private

Headquarters
  
Westlake Village

Founded
  
1995

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Products
  
micrófonos y equipo de grabación para el consumidor y la industria

Profiles

Blue microphones yeti mic review


Blue Microphones is an audio production company that designs and produces microphones, headphones, recording tools, signal processors, and music accessories for audio professionals, musicians and consumers.

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Blue microphones snowball usb condenser microphone review


History

Blue Microphones was founded in 1995 by an American session musician, Skipper Wise, and a Latvian recording engineer, Martins Saulespurens. The company's name is an acronym for Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics. The company is headquartered in Westlake, California, United States.

In 2008, Skipper and Martins sold Blue Microphones to Transom Capital, a private Equity firm from Southern California.

In 2013, The Riverside Company acquired Blue Microphones from Transom Capital. Intrepid Investment Bankers advised Blue Microphones in the transaction.

Products

Blue Microphones designs and manufactures condenser microphones, ribbon microphones, dynamic microphones, USB microphones, and headphones.

Studio

The company makes the Bottle Rocket Stage One, Bottle Rocket Stage Two and The Application Specific Series with a proprietary sonic signatures.

Consumer

Blue Microphones designs and manufactures USB microphones, including Yeti, Snowball and Spark Digital. The Spark Digital was the first studio-grade condenser microphone to combine USB and iOS connectivity. The Yeti was the first THX certified microphone.

Awards

  • Electronic Musician 2000 Editor’s Choice Microphone of the Year - Blueberry condenser microphone
  • RetailVision 2009 Best Hardware peripheral - Mikey and Eyeball 2.0
  • BeatWeek (formerly iProng) Best in Show 2009, 2010
  • References

    Blue Microphones Wikipedia