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^ Nathan Olivarez-Giles (July 21, 2009). In July 2018, Logitech announced plans to acquire Blue Microphones for $117 million USD. Intrepid Investment Bankers advised BLUE Microphones in the transaction. In 2013, The Riverside Company acquired BLUE Microphones from Transom Capital. In 2008, Skipper and Martins sold BLUE Microphones to Transom Capital, a private Equity firm from Southern California. It was the famous ''Baby bottle", which is still being manufactured in 2021.įrom 1995 - 2004 BLUE microphones were manufactured in Latvia, from 2005 the production moved to China, but some microphones were built in the US. The first BLUE microphone was created in 1995 in Riga, Latvia. That microphone became popular with aspiring pro musicians and dedicated hobbyists as an alternative to renting time in a recording studio. With a nudge from Apple Inc., the Westlake Village company created a low-cost condenser microphone called the Snowball for use with music recording software, GarageBand. Jessica’s perspective was to collaborate with other aspiring creatives online, synonymous with the needs of the developing consumer world of technology in the 90’s. Jessica grew up playing softball with Skipper, so she made the shape with her hand when suggesting the microphone idea of what is known today as the Snowball-the exact dimensions of a softball.
At the time, Skipper’s daughter Jessica, an aspiring singer at age 12, suggested to Skipper to create a microphone for sending audio recordings through the internet. The company is headquartered in Westlake Village, California, United States.īLUE Microphones first creation began by manufacturing the “bottle,” a versatile studio XLR microphone encompassing interchangeable capsules curated to isolate sonic signatures for any application, and became widely used among professional recording musicians. The company's name is a backronym for Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics. BLUE Microphones was founded in 1995 by American session musician Skipper Wise and Latvian recording engineer Mārtiņš Saulespurēns.