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Specifications and Reviews
Blueberry Product Description
Guitar World, 2003-09- Blueberry Mic Manual
- OHIM design decision, 2006-08
- MIX review, 1999-02
- DigitalProSound, 2003-11
- Electronic Musician, 1999-10
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Blue Microphones Blueberry
Street: $699 / MSRP: $1,299 Cardioid Condenser Microphone
Description
The Blueberry is a large-diaphragm, side-address cardioid condenser microphone with a transformer-coupled output.
The mic’s capsule is Blue’s model B0 (also available in a lollipop head for the various Bottle-style head amps). The B0 is a single-diaphragm, edge-terminated design with a 24mm active surface area, voiced to evoke the sound of the classic Ela M 251.
Blue
the Blueberry has been designed to provide the commanding, intimate presence associated with the world’s best (and most expensive) vintage vocal microphones. With its shimmering, detailed highs, smooth midrange, and minimized proximity effect, the Blueberry excels at delivering a vocal right to the front of the mix where it belongs.
This microphone won Electronic Musician’s 2000 Editors’ Choice Award for Best Microphone.
The Blueberry ships in a padded cherrywood box.
Available separately is Blue’s “Series 2,” aka S2 shockmount (which is also compatible with the Dragonfly and Cactus microphones).
MIX, 1999
I rarely needed the pop filter. Also, the mic’s proximity effect is fairly minimal, except in VERY close quarters, so there’s no worry about all your vocalists sounding like Barry White. If you’re looking for a vocal mic with a huge bass bump and a presence boost, this is not the mic for you, but on both male and female vocalists, The Blueberry provided an un-hyped sound that was quite natural, with an uncolored off-axis response.
The Blueberry, like several of Blue’s early products, was the subject of an intellectual property dispute in 2006, when the original manufacturer, SIA Scruples/Violet Design, attempted to register a lookalike microphone with the EU’s “Office for the Harmonization of the Internal Markets” — essentially the EU’s trademark office. The OHIM called Scruples’ registration invalid, awarding the IP rights to Martin Saulespurens of BLUE. For a time, this mic was known as the Violet JZ-1 or JZ1.
The Blue Microphones Blueberry is also known as: JZ1, JZ-1.
The mic was released in 1997.
Specifications
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Cardioid
(20 mV/Pa; 20-20,000 Hz) |
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| Capsule Dimensions | Impedance | SPL/Noise |
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| Diaphragm diameter: 24mm Capsule diameter: 34mm Diaphragm gauge: 6 microns |
150 Ohms (Low) | Max SPL: 133 dB Self-noise: 9.0 dB(A) |
| Weight | Length | Max Diameter | Interface(s) |
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| 520g (18.34oz) | 235mm (9.25'') | 50mm (1.97'') |
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