beyerdynamic M88TG

Nastiest Handling Noise

Balanced sound! Very nasty plosives and handling noise. Every move on stage came out of the speakers. And Beyerdynamic thinks it’s the best thing ever since sliced bread! Stay away!

You can feel it in the air tonight

This is now my favorite live / rehearsal mic. Very clear highs, good low end, excellent feed-back characteristics and takes volume (screaming) nicely. Handling-noise / stage-rumbling almost not existing. General feeling is very high quality. Recommendable for male-voices like mine :)

Great sound on the right sources, offers a way to fine tune by placement

This mic is a bit different to other common dynamics but can be very helpful on some things. It does best on brass, some percussion, and is a useful kick drum mic when placed inside the shell if you experiment to find the right position, and use the WS69 wind shield to protect the diaphragm. You will find it has its own flavour, perfect on some instruments, as a helpful alternative to the standard choices. Has long been used successfully behind the sounding board of upright pianos. Even some vocalists. Strong proximity effect which you can exploit by close-miking or limit by increasing distance. Useful on floor tom or large drums, large brass like tuba, sousaphone, also sax and trumpet. Excellent option to have available and great to add to your personal mic kit as an alternative or enhancement to the standard types. Best used by exploiting its ability to control its response by placement, with the engineer's judgement can fine-tune the sound of the source. An essential standard for decades for good reasons

Versatile & Musical

Such a drastic upgrade from other dynamics. I can always find a good use for this microphone, for live sound, or studio purposes, if I have one (or more) with me.

Good rejection / bleed control, and "clean" in that you really don't get any unpleasant or unmusical distortion... It is hard to overwork this microphone / capsule, it just works.

My new fav kick mic

Sounds incredible in my kick with the ws59 windscreen! Also sounded great on a guitar amp. Loving this mic

Best handheld dynamic microphone ever made.

I have many top name dynamic microphones in my collection, the M88 is one of the most balanced and best sounding mics I have.

Fantastic range and records beautifully anything I put it on, Beyerdynamic created a sonic work of art, amazing for a dynamic mic that was introduced in 1962.

Great dynamic mic

Bought it to record vocals at home. Gets a condenser-like sound in a non-treated room. Great mic.

Excellent for the price

I bought this mic for bass ahead of more expensive options as the re20 or md421. Be it vox or drums or guitar, whatever I throw this mic in front of it will excel

I use this mic a LOT

I really like this microphone. It sounds great for recording the guitar amp. I also use it on rack toms. I got a lot of use out of this little mic. It really is the first one I go to when Im recording the guitar amp. Tried it on vocals. There are better mics for that. This one stays in my mic collection and is used for instruments mostly. Sounds great. Would buy it again if it was lost. Thumbs up.

Swiss army mic

This is one of my all time favorite microphones and I use it all the time on everything. upright bass, bass drum, guitar amp, floor tom, vocals. The newer ones doesn't have the same smooth sound as the old ones, but at least the new ones doesn't break that easily. I have vintage one that sounded great but died, so that's why I got a new one. But very happy with it.