Shure SM 7 B Reviews

Standard

Very well suited for podcast style vocals, loud vocals and all loud sources. My main use is with vocals and trumpet and they both sound very focused. The build is very solid.

An industry leader that continues to excel

We had a complete studio rebuild over the last lockdown Christmas (in the UK) and I specified the SM7B as a solution to our less that acoustically silent studios. We're based in a very large community centre albeit on the very end of the building but have occasional 'background' noise from within the building (dance studios) and large windows in the room with some residential traffic noise from outside. It's not as bad as it sounds but any large diaphragm condenser would be ingesting this noise like a sponge so we had to look at a practical solution. Given the SM7B is large diaphragm dynamic we benefit from all of the goodness of close proximity voice work with a workable rolloff to be able to gate the extraneous noise from being picked up. Add some compression to the captured audio and the resulting broadcast VLs are solid and perfectly audible without hearing the unwanted noise in broadcast. We can't avoid some unwanted noise behind an open link but the SnR ratio in this respect is more than acceptable. We even managed to avoid having yards of acoustic dampening and designed some very aesthetic frames with four sponge pieces to hang nearby to quash odd reflection. The SM7B solves so many issues just by taking it out of the box you can see why Bruce Swedien loved it so much.

This mic is often adopted by the 'podders mainly for its looks and they love having it pride of place which is fair but despite it needing a kick of gain one should listen very carefully to the results and spend some time tuning it to find the sweet spot for your environment. I honestly think once you've found that spot you could put any talent you can find in front of this mic and they'd sound perfect. As an experiment I've done my setting up and capped off all of the EQ and gains controls on the desk. Our diverse range of presenters in the week are known fiddlers but now they all sound superb with nothing more than a fader to open and close the channel. EQ/processing settings? Desk is an Alice Series A, 100Hz rolloff, a -2dB cut at 4kHz and about 1.5dB boost at 10kHz, flat otherwise. Compression is inserted pre-fade at 3:1 soft knee from -18dB upwards (Berry MDX4600).

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Lovely Mic

I have found this to be a great mic, especially if you don't have a great room to record in, it records less of the room and more of what is in front of it.

Needs no introduction really

We all known the amazing history and quality of this mic. Even if you haven't heard of it's name,you've seen it. It's a legend no doubt. The only thing you really have to look out for is the low output that it has-which means it might need an extra mic preamp,that can boost the signal to the right levels-hopefully without noise- this depends really on which device(s) you're using it with.

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i love the item easy to handle so cheep

THE dynamic mic

No need for introduction, this mic has made history! keep in mind, you need a good preamp to make it work properly, due to his very low sensibility!

Love this microphone

I really love this microphone, for podcast and singing sounds great. Requires a bit of work to make it sit well in a mix due to it's rather dark nature, but nothing you can't work around.

Don't need anything else

i had the chance to use it while i gave interviews, and i really liked the way it sounds. I was curious how it works if i use it to record my songs, so i bought one. Since then i use it more than my condenser mic. It adds some crisp and smokyness to my voice.

this is the last micrphone u will buy

best broadcasting microphone

its a legend

Great Mic! (one annoying design flaw)

The ratings speak for themselves. This mic is fantastic, so versatile. One thing that's really annoying the the placement of the XLR connector. It's just in an awkward spot, and if you're connecting it to a table stand (and with a Fethead, in my case) it's just kind of awkward. Easy to look past it though, 10/10 otherwise.

Best all around mic for Streaming and Video

If you have to record in a large and mostly untreated room, this mic is exceptional at making you sound like you're in a much higher treated environment than reality.

It can take some time to dial in the mic to your voice, especially if you're new to the set-up but once you do it's rock solid and will save you hours of time with removing niggling noises and room sound from recording and thus saving you time for post processing.

I use this with a goxlr to stream and does not need a pre-amp, not even a fethead. The Goxlr is more than enough and I have to even tone down the amount of power I send to it. I use this mic to do video and voice overs with and it's a true champion of multi purpose. Like with any mic though, this does especially suffer at longer distances from the recording source.

I did see some concerns about people worrying this would introduce bass into peoples voice, it can emphasise what is there, but will actually make even the most high pitched voice calmer and smoother, including womens voice.

The Mic to do all things!!

This Mic is amazing! I use this Mic for everything! Whether that is vocals, sax, acoustic piano, voice overs, you name it! I have found that this microphone always gives me what I want and that is brilliant, crisp sound quality.

I don't have many cons for this (if any at all!) so although this is a pricey mic, if you go for it, I am confident you will be happy with the Shure SM7B.

I haven't needed to use a phetamp yet to boost the signal however it does need a high gain, but I am yet to hear a decrease in sound because of it!

Top quality microphone, try the rest, but buy the best

Having used various microphones and setups over the years, this microphone really packs a punch. It has low end gain, so a fethead/phantom power is required. But once set up it has extremely crisp and subtle effects.

I use it for live streaming and it has revolutionised my sound. The ability to use it while playing acoustic guitar, while not picking up the full sounds of acoustic is impressive.

This is a top class microphone, well worth the investment.

The legendary Shure SM7B delivers.

There is not much to tell about this microphone that hasn't been said before. This is one of the best microphones out there for the price. It's built like a tank so if it's taken care of, it can last a lifetime. I like it so much that sometimes I just talk in it because it turns my voice into butter.

I paired this with the SSL 2+ interface so I wouldn't have to use a Cloudlifter and it's pretty straight forward. Plug it in and record.

Really nice mic

Nice sound and its not to sensitive... It takes some phantom power for it not to be to low in picking up sound but other than that its a solid choice

Nice Mic

I'm using it for the broadcast and other recording jobs. This is the legend mic. Everybody can buy.

by far the best dynamic mic for recording metal vocals!!

Wonderful performance

This’s exactly what I was looking for , great performance great sound quality

great

brilliant sound very happy with this

very good

it's good thing and i'm very happy with it