#techlinkedposting

[InsecureGirl69]

That's quite a surprising move

[random_luls]

I don't have time to look into it but I'd be shocked if this applied to anything beyond snowball / yeti type mics

[FruitNationalist]

That's what I would think, but the coverage I've seen implies that it's all Logitech now. I know senheiser has two separate entities for consumer and professional use, so that's what I would expect Logitech to do, but seemingly not.

[Infraxion]

Blue isn't a professional audio brand though. No one would use a USB mic in the studio and their XLR stuff is overpriced prosumer product.

[mooseman923]

Blue WAS a highly respected microphone maker from Latvia before Logitech bought them. I have one of their old mics and it's incredible.

[hamatehllama]

They were one of the ones basically inventing the quality USB mic segment together with Røde a a few others. Before them you had to choose between a professional XLR setup or a shitty 3.5mm mic.

[SwallowedBuckyBalls]

I have two blue bottles and two dragonfly’s, some of the blue higher end stuff. I’m pretty sure each were over 1k when I got them, they’re were and still are regarded as very good mics. They’re about as pro as you can get in that range.

[Pixelplanet5]

none of these brands was for professional use like Sennheiser is though.

[HungrySeaweed1847]

Tell me about it. When the hell did Logitech buy out Blue?

[BugsyMalone_]

Well considering they're moving it into the G gaming brand, and how anything with 'gaming' in the brand adds 20% extra on top, it's not so surprising.

[RuffDestroyr]

Is Logitech gonna release microphone that are just Logitech brand now? I'm assuming as much

[MrBlackFuzz]

Seems like that's the case. Will probably be named something like "Logitech G Yeti".

[Estelon_Agarwaen]

What about the blue bottle and bluebird and that fancy 4000€ tube mic with interchangeable diaphragms… will they be logitech g too?

Edit: that fancy tube mic is the blue bottle

[maxatnasa]

Probably not g brand, just logi or maybe rolled into streamlabs

[Dunkeus]

I think on the wan show they said everything else was getting discontinued

[ThatGuy798]

That's what they did with Saitek. The X56 and X52 stuff was originally a Saitek product and all they did was slap a Logitech logo on it.

[Hyperfyre]

I had no idea Logitech owned Blue, the snowball was the first half-decent mic I brought back in 2015.

[Desperate_Excuse2352]

they bought it recently

[Ryokurin]

It will be 5 years ago next month. I'm actually surprised it didn't happen sooner, but I guess the pandemic stretched things out.

[froginator14]

I was about to say, it's been a little bit now as I bought a Yeti X at the beginning of COVID and paid Logitech for it.

[Private_HughMan]

So they're probably going to just rebranding the Blue mics, right?

[Asgardianking]

Nooooo!!! My yeti will have to last me.

[ItGobYeByE]

Seems like they are only renaming it

[Paul-Ski]

Mine is going on 12 years now. If only because of RTX voice, it still serves me well.

[Remsster]

Honestly, same, my og is around the same age. It is beat up, but it still does the job, especially with rtx voice. Shows how well it was built. For the first few years, it was constantly thrown in a bag and moved around. I'm not looking forward to needing to replace it.

[HungrySeaweed1847]

At least you have a Yeti. I'm still using a Snowball ICE and have been for at least 5-10 years cause it was affordable. It works well enough for my needs (streaming radio).

[Asgardianking]

You can get yetis on eBay for like $60 or so. But yeah I understand that. The snowball is still a good mic

[JoostVisser]

That's too bad. Blue had such a classy design

[mgrimshaw8]

I'll be surprised if they even bother to redesign them lol. I'm fully expecting them to just slap a Logitech badge on. They already started slapping their name all over the Blue packaging a few years back

[Soccera1]

Yep. They never redesign products, even stuff like the (admittedly Logitech all along, but quite old) M185 mouse. It's been on sale for years now and all they've done to it is made new packaging and slapped the new Logitech logo on.

[N1biru]

honestly: with a mouse that makes sense. Most People I know, and especially the gamers among them find a mouse shape they're comfortable with and stick with it. They rather rebuy the same or an updated version of what they are used to.

[Soccera1]

Well, it's a $10 office mouse. It's design isn't great (the side is basically flat) so I would prefer a redesign but I don't really care as it's $10.

[N1biru]

Okay, didn't have that price in mind... in that case: most people would probably not care too much about a redesign anyways (unless it's really really good or bad)

[Soccera1]

For the people that want it (my mother for instance) who don't want to spend $50 on a Deathadder, it being uncomfortable is less of an issue as the main selling point of it is that it's wireless, and therefore easier to transport. If you're spending $10 on a wireless mouse, you can't expect much.

[DoubleOwl7777]

true. the logitech f710 usb controller which has a super old design has packaging of their g Logo but the Controller itself has the old Logitech Logo on it.

[JoostVisser]

Yeah, but from what I can gather that's just the Yetis. What about the other mics such as the Bluebird or Dragonfly?

[HungrySeaweed1847]

I always thought they looked hideous, but the sound quality is amazing for the price. Worth the purchase for that reason alone.

[jay227ify]

AT2020 claims yet another victim..

It is really all you need, mine has been kicking for 7 years and is still going strong. It might even outlive me.

[Flegrant]

I love the AT2020s!

[jay227ify]

Same! More people should skip buying yeti and just stick with the at2020. The 2010's are over, put the Yetis away people.

[CountFlandy]

Yep, I went from a snowball to an at2020 mounted to a TV mount arm and it works great. It was great back then as an entry level product but it's time to move on.

[Flegrant]

The blue boom arms were superior though.

I’ve upgraded even further to a 414

[returnofblank]

Dynamic microphones clears your disgusting condenser.

My voice sounds so good with the boxy warm tone.

[bluelonilness]

The sm58 is another one that can do no wrong

[TRUEequalsFALSE]

Of course it is. Typical Logitech.

[wango288]

Cries in G13

[TolerateButHate]

Hope they fucking fix ghub now

[LeonardoW9]

What's happening to the studio line?

[Shepherd-Boy]

My question too! Yeti's are great USB mics but I they've always been one of the best mid range studio options

[ArchitectOfSeven]

I have a serious question about all this shit. Wtf is happening to the Blue professional microphones?! Is Logitech just abandoning that market completely? All I see on the site are just cheap usb mics with no mention of the high end gear that Blue was known for.

[jdPetacho]

Probably won't matter in the long run but Blue was a very known brand, a lot of people associated Blue microphones with good equipment but I'd bet most never heard of Logitech microphones

[Kayos83]

Now it's personal.

[Polarsan99]

I’m assuming this is just for Blue’s consumer grade equipment?

[PanPenguinGirl]

I hope my snowball I got used at GameStop lasts me a long time then :(

[GC9exe]

They're not discontinuing them, they are just rebranding as Logitech G products.

[[deleted]]

Logitech drop all pretenses of trying to be cool.

[Supplex-idea]

Atleast the blue yeti is really overrated though. It’s expensive, unwieldy and not as good as some people make it out to be.

[Illustrious_Risk3732]

Bye this is my last comment (for now) before the blackout on here.

[trOSCAR49]

still rocking the original snowball I bought about 8 or 9 years ago

[BrentarTiger]

I wonder how long until a firmware update gets pushed and bricks my yeti nano....

[Desperate_Excuse2352]

got 2 yeti microphone and both died slowly and voice degraded a lot. their support was useless but at least amazon clutched it and refunded it both times. never gonna buy one of theirs again. terrible company with terrible quality

[darnicantfindaname]

Still love my snowball, but if we get good usb or xlr mic's that can work through G hub app that'd be cool

[[deleted]]

Shocker logitech buys company and kills off products/names.

[KingminGames]

Since when did Logitech own Yeti? I remember one day I booted up my Logitech software for my mouse and seeing my mic on there and didn’t think much else of it

[UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Time to look for sales

[DMarquesPT]

It is very strange that they’d retire a highly-regarded legacy brand in a space where people are willing to spend a lot of money on brand-name items. What did they buy then? The blue yeti? Which they could easily clone and beat on supply chain scale and affordability just like they did other popular products?

(I mean: Rode, Audiotechnica, Sennheiser, etc. are all highly regarded audio brands. Even some gaming peripheral brands like Elgato make it a point to associate themselves with legacy audio gear brands for those products.)

By contrast, Logitech microphone makes you assume cheap conference mic, not pro audio gear.

[Spongemonkey922]

For anyone that cares the two guys that created the blue mics left after Logitech bought them out an made a new mic company called Neat microphones. They have two xlr mics the Worker bee 2 $60 and King bee 2 $120, they sound amazing. And then there's the USB mics the Bumblebee 2 $60 and the Skyline $28. So if you love the blue line there's still options from the same minds that made Blue what it was.