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Alright, Bauer here and we're here at CES 2009 still of course,
feeling a little exhausted. A little tired.. It's only day 2, right?
We still have tomorrow to go. I'm here with Ty Schultz today from Blue Microphones,
as you know, I'm kind of an audio geek, I'm a musician, and I've always sort of coveted,
some of these Blue Microphones, and you guys have rolled out a couple of really cool new things.
Now right behind us here, are some of your higher end, professional mics right here, right?
- No, exactly. At the end of the day Blue has its heritage in all of its DNA built in,
creating the best, the highest quality recording microphones in the world.
You have a ten thousand dollar bottle microphone system, all the way down to a three hundred dollar
Bluebird, which is sold at many of the Apple stores. But at the end of the day it's about
musicians. That's what we're about. And then of course we like to say,
democratizing great audio for the masses. So that's what a lot of these products are trying
to get... - And when you say that, I mean the Blue Snowball,
it was sort of your first step in that direction, right?
This was sort of... This was the consumer focused podcaster, home musician,
USB microphone here, right? - Absolutely. This is for project recording but
it's also for voice over IP, or all the other uses you would need for a great,
USB microphone. It's now the number one selling professional use microphone in the world.
- So if I'm somebody that... I'm not a musician, right? I don't podcast, I'm not a musician,
I don't need to record my voice for anything, but... Yeah, exactly, But I do to travel,
I like to... I don't want to do web conferencing, I want to do voice over IP,
I want to record stuff when I'm out running around on the road,
what do you guys have now, to help me out? - We got a couple of great new products.
So number one, took the Snowball and made it smaller into Snowflake,
and initially added a super HD webcam to that. So now you have high quality,
effectively HD quality audio, as well as HD quality video in one.
And we've got a nice little shutter here, you know you don't want to be recording...
You want to know when you're recording. - I do, yes.
- So that's a great thing for some using Skyping you know, it's like Skipper our founder says:
Do you want to be talking to your wife, or your children at home and hear them say
'Daddy I love you', or do you want them to say 'Daddy I love you'?
- You know what I notice when I pick this up, is that it feels so much more solid,
than just about any other like webcam combo that you can find, anywhere.
It just you hold it in your hand and it just feels like it's a much higher quality piece of gear.
- Absolutely. At the end of the day we're a very high quality company, and we want
to leave that impression with people. You're... If you buy something from Blue,
you're going to get a really quality piece, and not only does it work well,
but it looks great on your desk, it's got a great form factor.
I mean those are all really important aspects. - Now what sort of price point are we looking at
for the Blue Eyeball here? - Sure, sure, this is 99$.
So that's actually very very reasonable. - We feel like it is, absolutely.
- I was honestly expecting to hear like 149, 199 something like that. So that's really cool.
And then you also have, what is this? This is an interesting looking device right here
attached to this little Nano here. - Absolutely. So this is a Mickey,
which is our recorder for iPod, see it's got 3 gain settings so you can record everything
from maybe being in a lecture hall, maybe you're a student, want to record all of your classes,
bring them home, download to iTunes so you've got them for access any time,
all the way up to, you know, a rock concert. Or some live music.
- I'm looking through the grill here, and I see, what it looks like 2 sensors, is this stereo?
- Yes, so you've got stereo recording, and you have a mono playback speaker,
so that you can make sure you got the recording you need, or that it's recording.
- So this will also, so in addition to giving the ability to record stuff,
this is going to allow you to have an external speaker on your iPod as well.
- Exactly, that's exactly right. - That's very cool. And how much would something
like this run? - Right. So this 79.99$.
- Very very cool, so you guys obviously have some really really... And this is all available
now, right? This is all stuff that you can go out and buy?
- These will be available in all Apple stores as well as Guitar Center and all the major
retailers will be getting Mickeys, 1st of March, Eyeballs, 1st of February.
- Fantastic. Well thanks for taking the time to show this stuff,
really appreciate it man, thank you.
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