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Blue Microphones Bluebird Condenser MicrophoneThe Blue Microphones Bluebird condenser microphone's unique look and highly versatile performance along with no-compromise audio gives Blue users what they have come to expect.
The Bluebird is a large-diaphragm cardioid condenser, utilizing Blue’s renowned microphone technology and Class-A discrete circuit. In a departure from its normally application-specific designs, Blue engineered the Bluebird to be as versatile as possible, with applications ranging from vocals to electric and acoustic guitars, close-miking of drums, drum overheads, percussion, piano, horns, strings, and any other application where crystal-clear sound quality and detail is of the utmost concern. In addition to the microphone itself, the Bluebird also includes a specially designed shockmount - The BirdCage, and a metal mesh pop filter - the BirdNest. So no matter what your sound, the complete Bluebird package offers today’s musician a top-notch recording experience at an outstanding price — all in one nest!
BlueBird Features
- Cardioid polar pattern
- Class A discrete amplifier circuit
- Blue’s famous cutting-edge design
- Complete package, including shock mount and pop filter
Suggested Applications
- Vocals
- Electric and Acoustic Guitars
- Drums
- Piano & Strings
Capture the Heart of What's in Your Head . . .
With BLUE Microphones
BLUE microphones are more than just a recording tool . . . they are an investment in value, quality, and expression. You will display them for their artistic beauty, covet and protect them for their investment value, and treasure them for conveying the heart and soul of any musical recording.
BLUE stands for Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics — and for the ultimate in quality! Our work speaks for itself. You'll find BLUE microphones are beyond compare as a valuable investment and unsurpassed as a musical production tool. BLUE has its own facility located in Latvia (one of the Baltic states, located outside Russia). At BLUE, we are not interested in cost-effective mass production, which could jeopardize the design quality of our tube and solid state microphones and related products. We design and manufacture all capsules — the heart of the microphone — as well as precision parts, from the smallest screw to the large body shells used for our Bottle microphones. We've researched the needs of engineers and musicians alike, to create an exceptional collection of microphones. What makes BLUE microphones so unique, and so valuable? Our unique formula. The mylar film of our BLUE hand-built capsules are sputtered with a special, unique-to-BLUE formula of 24-carat gold of absolute pure (99.99%) quality and aluminum. This special film is tensioned to our own hand-built brass backplates, designed and manufactured in our Riga factory. Our formula allows us to achieve the fastest transient response without the sacrifice of low-end frequencies. BLUE considers the capsule to be the heart of the microphone. This most important element is manufactured solely by us and not sourced from another company. This process is crucial to achieving the unique sound quality that is the trademark of a BLUE microphone.
BlueBird Specifications
- Acoustical Operating Principal: Pressure Gradient
- Directional Pattern: Cardioid
- Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz
- Sensitivity (1kHz into 2.5kOhm): 27mV/Pa
- Rated Impedance: 50 Ohms
- Rated Load Impedance: Not less than 1 kOhm
- Noise Level A-weighted (IEC 651): Not more than 7.5dB
- Max Output (1% THD into 2.5kOhm): 12dBV = 3.1V
- Max SPL (0.5% THD into 2.5kOhm): 138dB
- Dynamic Range (2.5kOhm load): 130dB
- Supply Voltage (IEC 268-15): +48V phantom power (+35V min.)
- Current Draw (typical ai +48V): 1.8mA
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Rate and Review this Product:
 1 person rated this item  | Kip Count from New City, NY | | Overall Ranking: | | Features:
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| | | Subject: | Awesome microphone, very happy. | | Quality:
| Construction of the microphones leave a little bit to be desired. It's not bad by any means, but I definitely feel if I dropped it I'd stand a big chance of breaking it. Internally, if you vibrate the mic with your hand, you can hear a light squeaking noise inside. I have noticed this very slightly in other mics, even the 4033, but it's much worse with the Bluebird and could possibly be from the Chinese manufacturing of these. The shockmount isn't so great either. I hate the clip design, and you need to clamp it over the metal plate on the back bottom of the mic, or the mic will slip right down. it doesnt hold it tight enough. Also, the tightening mechanism on the shockmount will easily slip if you don't really really really tighten it down with your fingers. i've noticed if you tighten it slightly lower than you want the mic, and you physically pull the cage up it helps lock it in. Kind of a pain, but it works. | | Features:
| For features, it really doesn't have any. I kind of like it this way. I don't want all my mics to have switches and things. I have enough buttons to contend with in my chain. :)
You might call the pop filter a feature. I don't use it. It's kind of weird, and isn't very convenient or quick to take off and put on. It's quite tedious actually. I think the mic looks better without the pop filter on it anyway. The pop filter makes it looks borderline cheesy. | | Ease of Use:
| It's easy. Again, no features like rolloffs or pads. You just plug it in and go. | | Sound:
| The sound is where I'm 110% SOLD. As should be with any microphone. This has become THE microphone I use with my Taylor 810 acoustic guitar (with an RNP preamp). Previous, i could not get any mic to sound right with my 810, including the AT4033 which a lot of people swear by as a great acoustic mic. The slight eq scoop the Bluebird has levels out my Taylor in a beautiful way. It also serves as an excellent vocal mic when I find the AT4033 to be a tad aggressive for the vocal I'm working on. The Bluebird is ever so slightly more mellow. For the price, this thing is an absolute steal. I might pick up a second one for stereo micing my acoustic upright piano.
All in all, I'm willing to take the hit on the shockmount and build quality to get this sound this price. You can always think up workarounds for shoddy shockmounts, but you can't workaround a bad sounding mic without using another one. Thankfully with the Bluebird, there's no need to do the latter. This thing is sweet. | | Do you own this product?:
| Yes, I own it. | | Date submitted:
| 2/4/2009 |
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