Shure SM 7 B 5-stars Reviews

Don't Regret Buying This At All!

I'm still relatively new to using professional grade microphones, so don't take my review as a gospel, but this is a lovely microphone to use. I mainly use this for vocals, and as the occasional bass drum mic. My only small complaint it that its a little bit "Damp" in the sense that you will more than likely need to boost the high end in post, but other than that, this is a great purchase!

Top notch

I didn't think it's that heavy to be honest. It feels super solid and the sound is amazing as well. I'm very happy with my choice.

Best mic for the price

For a vocal mic it doesn’t get better at this price point, forget getting a cheap condenser and just get this

Amazing mic for home and studio use

Got a SM7B with a FetHead for home studio use about a year ago. I was skeptical as I've heard many mixed reviews, however, this mic is amazing. Whether it's spoken voice for voice overs, harsher vocals or something more dynamic. It's also very good for untreated rooms and DIY recording, while the build is extremely sturdy and durable.

Shure SM 7 B mic for killing the music with clean flavor

Soo this mic something that I never seen before.Sound soo clean, bass powerfull, Im just speachless..excellent for studio and making music.

Best of the best

Very happy with my Shure SM 7 B. This was exactly what I was looking for. I use it for recording classes and can get the best sound from my voice with this wonder. Highly recommended.

Pretty fit for extreme and clean vocals

It's like a standard mic for these types of vocalizing. This is my first mic and it's fair to say that I'm happy with my choice.

I use it with gain supplement of TritonAudio FetHead. The room currently is not perfect, however this mic takes a subtle snapshot of the room. I even can barely hear that. So after it's easy to fix the recordings with EQ.

Long story short. I use this mic on my album recordings.

Shure SM 7 BBest studio/podcast/Streaming mic

I ordered the Shure SM 7 B with a hope to renew and improve my audio quality for not only live streaming, video recording and discord chatting. But mostly for getting that studio quality audio. Giving me more flexibility than I ever had before. After using it for more than 6 months I can only say how happy I am with this microphone. This is and will be my main mic for a very long time. The overall build quality is amazing.

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Muito bom , deu pra escutar direito!!!111!!!

Legendary is an understatement. This is vocal mic royalty!

Currently using a Scarlett 2i2 and a Klark Teknik CT1 with this mic. Works like a charm! Quality and build is definitely a big plus. Would definitely love to experiment with this further. So far, the only thing I've noticed as a caveat is the screw. It doesn't fasten as tightly as I would like, but that's a minor issue. My microphone stand probably just needs a bit of work.

Shure SM 7B

A brilliant microphone built like a tank long lasting and sounds excellent great at blocking out background noise or even poorly sound treating rooms. Would highly recommend

love it!

I'm using it for live broadcasting. Very nice mic and would recommend it to anyone that is serious about recording or broadcasting anything

one of the best known mics for a reason

this is my first dynamic mic, and I've had a very good experience with it so far! It's just not as clear as my previous entry-level condenser mics, but it definitely helps balance out the sound if your voice is more on the highs and mids. There's more richness in this mic, and it really depends on the voice you'll be using it on. In my case, I think it's great! Not the most balanced, crisp-sounding mic out there, but it shines with its main strengths.

Workhorse, very versatile

Great microphone. It handles any genre extremely well. From podcast/narration, to rap, to clean and distorted singing. It can also be used for guitar/bass amps. For a workhorse that will handle anything you throw at it, it's hard to go wrong with this one.

A small point of critique is that it is a quiet microphone. For recording, this is usually fine. However, if you want to use it for voice chat such as Discord, I'd recommend looking into a separate dB booster (I own a FEThead), which will sort this out.

Built like a tank!

Perfect mic for everything

This mic can do it all with a solid quality!

revered throughout the ages

Great dynamic mic for a number of applications

amazing

Such a great mic for the price. I expected it to be good but not that good!

Best for FM/DAB

We use this mic as our primary mic for all 4 host in studio. Without any bad word for it!!!

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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