BLUE Microphones is a manufacturer of high-quality microphones, signal processors, and music accessories. The company is headquartered in Westlake, California, with most manufacturing taking place in Latvia.

It was founded in 1995 by an American session musician and a Latvian recording engineer. The company’s name is an acronym for Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics.

Blue Microphones’ products have won several awards in design. These include a line of distinctively-shaped spherical microphones, as well as several models which mimic the discrete circuitry of early microphones.

Blue Microphones has recently started releasing consumer microphones, such as the Snowball, the Snowflake, and Mikey, the first High Definition microphone designed for use with Apple Inc.’s iPod