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CRAS was honored to have two sales members, Ben Thompkins and Bailey Beecher (CRAS Grad), from Blue Microphones to come speak to us. Bailey opened with her story of how she attended CRAS then explored her opportunities at Blue after a couple internships. After that Ben described his story. He was an artist who toured then went back home to finish college at USC. He has worked for Blue for seven years and is the second longest working employee at the company. Going on, Ben continued to speak about the history of Blue and how it was began in Los Angeles by two men in 1995. Blue is now celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. Before Blue made it big, they got the opportunity to have a display at the AES Convention which was in Los Angeles that year, then was greeted by a company named Guitar Center and the rest was history. The events Blue has attended this year consist of CES, E3, and Musikmesse.
When then turned our focus onto their products. Ben broke down their studio microphones into four sections: essentials, specialties, multi-patterns, and interchangeable capsules. For their interchangeable capsules they have nine different microphones which Ben says are some of their signature products that include Blue Bottle, Bottle Rocket Stage Two, and Bottle Rocket Stage One. Following that Ben explained consumer products like USB plug-in microphones. Then Bailey went on to demonstrate their new headphones recently released called Mo-Fi which have many attractive features such as being active headphones and containing a power amplifier. Ben took back over and took questions about Blue's future plans involving anything, not explicitly encompassing microphones.
Ending the meeting we gave all the students in attendance a raffle ticket for a chance to win a set of Blue Mo Fi Headphones and a couple Blue T-Shirts! Ben & Bailey then called a few lucky students numbers!
It was a pleasure to have Ben and Bailey at CRAS to talk about all things Blue. CRAS AES is very grateful for their time and knowledge and we hope to see them back soon.
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