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Blue Artist, Ernie Hall Plays Surprise Show with Justin Bieber on enCORE 200

Friday, May 20th, 2011

On Thursday night, when Ernie Halter played at La Cave Restaurant in Costa Mesa, California, he was surprised by Justin Bieber. The Biebs, who brought gal pal Selena Gomez as his date, even took the stage with the singer/songwriter. Bieber has covered Halter’s track “Come Home to Me” in his own shows, and on Thursday night he sang the tune right alongside the singer, much to Halter’s amazement.

Justin Bieber (on the enCORE 200) with Ernie Halter at La Cave:

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Find out more about Ernie Halter

Ernie Halter – a Blue Mics MOB artist– came to Blue studio in July to record a new track and talk about upcoming albums. You can hear the full podcast here:

Ernie Halter- Official Blue Microphones Podcast by Blue Microphones

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MOB artist Kina Grannis Records on Bottle, Talks with Blue

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Blue MOB Artist, Kina Grannis, recently came to Blue to taste test a few mics, including the Bottle, Kiwi, Woodpecker and Dragonfly. While she was here, Kina recorded a few tracks and sat down with us to talk about her upcoming album:

Kina Grannis trying out the Woodpecker

Kina’s new album will be dropping on April 15th and we got a sneak peek of her sound on the Bottle. Check it out here:

She self-released her debut full-length Stairwells in February of 2010 debuting on Billboard’s Top 200 and #5 on iTunes’ Pop Chart. On April 5th, Kina will re-release a remixed and remastered version of Stairwells – which will feature 4 brand new tracks – as well as a deluxe version that will include additional original music, select cover songs from her YouTube channel, exclusive videos and the offical music video for “Valentine,” which has amassed 7-million views on YouTube. Also, Kina’s North American World In Front Of Me headline tour will begin on April 2 at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall. Kina’s music is both sweet and melancholy, but always filled with hope.

Podcast

In 2007, Kina joined YouTube, made a music video and entered herself into a contest. A few months later, her video for “Message From Your Heart” aired during the Superbowl and its 97 million viewers (or 194 million eyeballs, depending on how you’re keeping track) and she walked away with a record deal.

Get to know Kina and learn how she turned a YouTube video into a Superbowl ad in our podcast.

Tags: blue microphones, blue mics, Blue MOB, Bottle, Dragonfly, Kina Grannis, kiwi, podcast, Woodpecker
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Danko Jones – ON TOUR

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Blue MOB artist, Danko Jones is a trio from Toronto, Canada that have made a name for themselves by putting on one of the most intense and exciting rock’n’roll shows in modern rock history.

Have you heard Danko Jones?

The first single, “Full of Regret”, is currently climbing the US radio charts quickly and the video, described by MTV Buzzworthy as “one-part Guy Ritchie, one-part Quentin Tarantino — and it’s pretty much a blast from start to finish”, features Elijah Wood, Selma Blair, Lemmy Kilmister and Mike Watt.

Blue Microphones podcast with Danko Jones will go up next week – Subscribe here!

Want to go see them?

Their US tour starts tomorrow!! Full list of tour dates can be found below. Described by Spin Magazine as the “World’s most entertaining hard rockers” and by Maxim as “sounding like AC/DC sniffing glue with Mötley Crue” this is rock in its purest form.

04-dec	Riverside	Mission Tobacco Lounge
05-dec	West Hollywood	The Troubadour
06-dec	Reno	Knitting Factory	KDOT Free entrance show
07-dec	Boise	Knitting Factory	KQXR Free entrance show
09-dec	Spokane	Knitting Factory	KHTQ Free entrance show
10-dec	Madison	The Annex	WJJO show
11-dec	Flint	Machine Shop	WWBN show
12-dec	Chicago	House of Blues Back Porch	Q101 afterparty show
16-dec	Santa Rosa	The Last Day Saloon	KXFX show
18-dec	Portland	Doug Fir (early show)	KUFO show
19-dec	Seattle	The Crocodile	KISW show

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Can you believe this was recorded with the Yeti?

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Frank Tuner, a rising star in the UK music scene on Epitaph Records label, was recently featured on Spin.com for his cover of “My Poor Friend Me” by Bad Religion. Not only is this a great cover, but 100% of this studio-quality recording was recorded on the Yeti!

Frank Turner says:

“I sat down in my friend’s back room to record a song for a Bad Religion covers album. I didn’t have time to get into a proper studio so I just had my macbook and my Yeti mic. I used it to record every part of the song – guitars, vocals and some soft keys as well, and it was perfect, so easy to use, and the finished version came out great!”

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Guest Blog: How I use my Blue mic– Eyeball 2.0

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

In a crowded singer-songwriter niche, JT Spangler stands out with catchy melodies and straightforward lyrics. He is also a Blue artist who uses the Eyeball 2.0 on the road. Spangler lets us know how he gets the best sound and video from his Blue Eyeball –

Which mic do you use and why did you choose it?

I use the Blue Eyeball to webcast most of my live shows, as well as to do webcasts from my house, the van, or anywhere else I might get the urge to webcast. I chose it because I wasn’t happy with the audio quality available from the integrated laptop mic, nor with any of the other USB webcams I’ve used.

In what ways are you using the mic to get the best sound for your purpose?

Well, in this case it’s a simple as placing is as close to centered in front of the sound source as possible and setting the volume levels properly in my sound card so there’s no peaking. This distance is dictated by the camera more than the mic, because there are obviously certain things I want in the frame and the camera doesn’t have a zoom capability (which isn’t at all unusual).

What is your best advice to others using this mic?

This one couldn’t be any simpler — just plug into a USB slot and you’re off and running. I like to set a mic level in the soundcard (system preferences for mac; volume control for windows).

What programs do you use to record, edit, upload, etc your recordings?

I just use the free version of Quicktime to record audio/video (like when doing a youtube video), and I use ustream.tv to webcast live. It’s possible to separate the audio from the video once it’s recorded and tweak it in an audio-editing program of your choice, but for the stuff I do I don’t find it to be necessary. I like the grimy, live sound.

Any examples?

Here’s a video that I did last week for youtube. The video quality isn’t great, but this is due mainly to me not encoding it properly prior to uploading it to youtube. The raw .mov on my computer looks a hundred times better. Of course, they both sound great, which is my main concern. You can also check out several of my archived live shows on www.ustream.tv/jtspangler

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