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How to Get the Best Sound From a Blue Baby Bottle Mic

The Blue Baby Bottle microphone is a large diaphragm condenser microphone built by BLUE (Baltic Latvian Universal Electronics). It has a cardioid pickup pattern and a frequency response that delivers a neutral bottom end, rich and present mid-range, and smoothly attenuated high end. With this frequency response, the microphone excels at capturing some sound sources, while it inadequately captures others. Because of the emphasis it places on midrange frequencies, the microphone is often an ideal choice for recording instruments that produce a lot of mid-range frequency content. However, because of its neutral bottom end, the microphone is not often the best choice for recording bass heavy instruments. These factors should be kept in mind when choosing what sound sources to use a Blue Baby Bottle microphone on.

Instructions

    • 1

      Turn phantom power on when utilizing a Blue Baby Bottle microphone. Because the Baby Bottle is a condenser microphone, it will not operate without phantom power.

    • 2

      Point the front of the microphone toward the sound source you would like to capture. Because of its cardioid pickup pattern, the microphone will reject sound from its back and sides. If you do not point the microphone towards the source you are wanting to record, you will not capture its sound to the best of the microphone's ability.

    • 3

      Use a high quality microphone preamp when using the Blue Baby Bottle microphone. The microphone will only sound as good as the medium through which you are using it. Quality microphone preamplifiers will enhance the characteristics of the microphone. Because of this, the better quality microphone preamplifier, the better the Blue Baby Bottle microphone will sound.

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      Use the microphone to record sound sources for which the microphone was originally intended, such as vocals, drums, electric guitar and horns. By utilizing the microphone on the sound sources it was specifically designed for, you will obtain the best sound from a Blue Baby Bottle microphone.

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