Blue B6 Lollipop

Got this back in '01 or so, pre BigBox days, when Blue was making mics in Latvia and were mostly known as expert Neumann mod/repair folk.

This is a capsule that screws onto the body of an old AKG 451E. Blue hasn't made or sold this in a long time, though they do sell a 'B6' capsule for their Bottle line of mics - but this one is a totally different thing. I'll admit, most of the current Blue line does not excite me very much. But I like this sound, this is a good mic, very different aesthetic than what I hear from their current lineup being made in Shanghai. It kinda does the C12/251 thing, not that I'd say it sounds like a C12, it doesn't. But that's the tree I'd put this branch on. It does sound good on about anything you put it in front of. Plus, it's called a Lollipop. So, yeah.

I just about never use the 451 as a SDC anymore, so this capsule lives screwed onto the 451.

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