Blue Microphones puts out iOS-ready mics

Blue Microphones helped open up CES week by rolling out three new microphones. The Spark Digital is billed as the first pro-grade mic to reach iOS and is intended for those who want to add vocals or other samples in GarageBand on the iPad through a purer Dock Connector input. As a mic on the level with Blue's studio models, it has a deliberately neutral sound, gain control, zero-lag monitoring, and focus control that generates two different sound signatures.

The mic isn't locked into iOS and should work with any computer that supports USB.

A more modest alternative, the Mikey Digital, also fits to the Dock Connector and focuses more on whole-band composition, including multiple input pass-throughs for other instruments, Blue gives it the option of automatically adjusting gain as well as adjusting it by hand.

The Tiki microphone is nearly an experiment and is as compact as a USB flash drive while giving more than other mics. Along with its size, it uses a unique adaptive noise cancellation systmem that reacts to how it's used. It doubles as a storage drive when not capturing audio.

Blue puts the new microphones at a premium and is asking $59 for the Tiki, $99 for the Mikey, and $199 for the Spark. The trio don't have exact releases, but they could be available almost immediately.

Spark Digital



Mikey Digital



Tiki

By Electronista Staff