Founded | 1995 |
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Headquarters | Westlake Village, California, U.S. |
Products | Microphones and recording equipment for consumer and industry |
Website | http://www.bluemic.com |
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.
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 Village, 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.
Blue Microphones designs and manufactures condenser microphones, ribbon microphones, dynamic microphones, USB microphones, and headphones.
The company makes the Bottle Rocket Stage One, Bottle Rocket Stage Two and The Application Specific Series each with a proprietary sonic signature.
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.