Blue Microphones (legally Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics, LLC) was an American audio production company that designed and produced microphones, headphones. Recording tools, signal processors, and music accessories for audio professionals, musicians and consumers. It was acquired by Logitech in 2018; the company phased out "Blue" moniker in 2023 while still selling some of Blue Microphones' original products.
History
Blue Microphones was founded in 1995 by American session musician Skipper Wise and Latvian recording engineer Mārtiņš Saulespurēns. The company's name is a backronym for Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics. The company was founded in Latvia. The company is headquartered in Westlake Village, California, United States.
Blue Microphones' first creation was the Baby Bottle, a professional XLR microphone used by musicians for recording. In the early 2000s, Blue's perspective pivoted to manufacturing microphones for collaborating with other creatives online, synonymous with the needs of the developing consumer world of technology in the 1990s. The Westlake Village company created a low-cost condenser microphone called the Snowball for use with music recording software GarageBand in the late 2000s. The size, shape, and weight of the Snowball was created to that of a regulation softball. The Snowball microphone became popular[1]