Blue Microphones Baby Bottle SL Large-Diaphragm Cardioid Condenser Microphone

The Blue Baby Bottle is an absolute gem. The sound is rich, warm, and detailed—perfect for vocals, acoustic instruments, and even voiceovers. It brings a professional polish to anything I record. It’s become one of my go-to choices in the mic locker—reliable, versatile, and always delivers a clean, balanced tone. Build quality is solid too. Easily one of the best investments I’ve made for my studio.

My use for this mic is, voice chat, singing, recording instruments.Voice: This mic has a classic warm tone, very clear, I've had this Mic for 3 day, everybody can hear the clarity an bass in my voice extremely clear.Also it is an XLR mic, so it does require phantom power. Me personally I recommend the Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen, if you only have a mic to connect to your PC. I got this $400 mic on sale for $180 Used - Like New, the value for my money is perfect. honestly for the price, this mic punches WAY above its weight, you can record instruments, vocals, podcast, ect. The Mic was in perfect condition, build quality of the mic is Excellent, it has a good weight & size to it so you will definitely need a good boom arm. I use the Blue boom arm.

I love this mic. I use it occasionally for recording but regularly for Zoom calls and it is wonderful.

These are well made, economical but professional microphones. Low noise floor and good output. They also look cool.

Like most Blue mics, it's dead quiet and focused on a purpose. This is vocals. It's got a strong mid, upper mid and good treble, but it's not bright, not neutral either. Cardiod, but not wide. NOW ! Mine is a refurb. The label does not read "Baby Bottle" ! It has NO model ! ? unlike all other BabyBottle mics ever made. Is this a brilliant fake ? I may buy another.

Bought a tm102 Neumann and this exceed the quality of the 1,000$ mic. Great boxing

(UPDATE: 08/30/2022)I ended up getting a refund through Amazon (which I have still not received and it seems like they have no idea what's happening with the order, so fun) and bought a new mic through Blue's website. It got here faster than the one I ordered through Amazon, I paid less, and the one I got actually works properly and has the expected build quality of a $400 microphone. I am 100% confident that Amazon sent me a totally used/refurb mic and didn't pay attention to that. Total incompetence. Amazon has not compensated me for this experience in any way other than offering a refund (which has also been a struggle) so I'm leaving this review at a one star, but it is NOT the manufacturers fault. My new microphone is the best microphone I've ever had and sounds amazing, and this is a great product, but Amazon just cannot deliver on certain things and apparently this is one of them.(08/22/2022)The microphone itself was damaged on arrival. I the body of the microphone was loose and there was something broken on the internals of the microphone that you could hear rattling around on the inside of the microphone. This was all things that I noticed literally 3 seconds after the microphone was out of its packaging. Keep in mind for the rest of these discoveries I bought the microphone BRAND NEW!Against my better judgement I took the shock mount out of the package and put it on my boom arm and proceeded to set everything up and... The mic worked. The mic sounded good and everything so I continued to use it for the next 4 or so hours, until I noticed that the capsule itself was rotated around, which to my knowledge, is not something that is supposed to happen. At this point I was already certain I would have to get a refund or a replacement so after I noticed this, I started the process. It only goes downhill from here of course.While putting the microphone and the shockmount and everything back in the box, I noticed that there were a bunch of stickers on the box that were peeling, and on one side it was taped on. I peeled it off and saw a bunch of faded print underneath and damage to the box itself. After all of this, I have come to the conclusion that I received a refurbished or heavily used product when I purchased a new one. I brought this to Amazon Customer Support's knowledge and they said that they cannot send me a new one, they can only give me a refund. Which, at least they were able to give me a refund (still going through that process as of writing this review) but I wanted a replacement sent, because as I said before, I do like this microphone a lot. I contacted Blue Customer Support about this and was never given a response. So I am a little concerned about what is going on with this order.I am going to purchase another microphone after I get my refund, and if that one arrives in a similar condition as the previous microphone, the review shall stay the same and I'll never touch any other blue product with a six foot pole, as well as some serious phone calls being made to Amazon's (so far) lack luster Support team. However If I finally get the microphone that I was promised the first time I bought one, then I'll review the microphone for what it is.

You really can't go wrong with a blue if you're looking for a affordable, low to mid level microphone that doesn't sound like a low to mid level microphone. Are use this Mike, pre-Sonus monitors, and a lightning Focusrite, and I get sound that's just as good (if you know what you're doing) a's a pro studio. If you don't know much about mixing or don't produce, don't know how to use different plug-ins etc.this is still a great "Plug-in and record" microphone.