Behringer XM8500 vs Shure SM57/58 - Literally the Best Bargain on the Market (Budget Mic Review)

[@AudioHaze]

Skip the next drive thru meal and buy the XM8500 instead - amzn.to/3utvKmp

[@thejonathandoan]

Done. Thanks for the review!

[@Erick726]

At $60 for that interface and $25 for the mic plus maybe another $20 for a budget stand or boom arm of some kind that's $100 and you can get a decent USB dynamic mic for that price. If it was really $50 for a decent interface and that mic I'd gladly pick it up.

[@Rod-Wheeler]

Great as always. Behringer is so underrated for beginners. 20 years ago this would be state of the art! Talent is 80%. I've heard demos made on a $20 cassette recorder that I would have paid for. Talent over environment or equipment.

[@AudioHaze]

Definitely! And really in todays music tech environment, I would say equipment is more of a SMALL hindrance if anything at all

[@Rod-Wheeler]

@@AudioHaze 💯

[@ryancrawford9894]

Believe it or not, this mic has been around for more than 20 years. Can’t speak to any changes that have been made to the design, but it’s been a budget hitter in the live sound world for awhile.

[@jo_krach]

I am working in a youth club and we have 5 SM58 as Vocal Mics which have been working since the late 90s. Every 10 Years or so we‘ll switch the Grills they look pretty beat up by this point, but they are sounding as if i had walked into my local Music Store and bought them today. For the rehearsal spaces and as spares, we have a few XM8500. The kids go through them like freakin‘ popcorn. We buy like 5 of them every half year to a year. In that time period, they will stop getting low-end and tend to get really harsh and shrill or get very muffled or stop working all together. I know that at that price point, that is to be expected. But i think at least if you want to be gigging, investing in a 57 or a 58 will pay itself in the matter of months, cause the Behringers WILL break on you in the most unpleasant moments.

[@KenTeel]

My question to you would be this: Is a youth club, and the treatment that the kids give mics, actually representative of how musicians would treat a mic? I don't doubt that the SM58 is built more robust. However the question is: Is the XM8500 up the construction standards that could handle most musicians' environments. Given that kids will put chewing gum on things, dunk things under water, pound on things, etc., does this really pertain to how a musician will experience the durability of the XM8500 ? I used a Chinese clone of an SM58 for 10 years: The GLS Audio ES58. During that 10 years, I dropped it onto concrete, accidentally, and it was subject to different situations, and it performed flawlessly. It still sounds good. So, I'm a bit skeptical that the environment with the kids would actually represent the kinds of environments that a musician would subject a microphone, to.

[@maromania7]

@@KenTeel The kids you're around must be absolute assholes. In my 15 years working with children I've met 2 that'd do that, but we certainly never let them near a microphone! For most kids of remotely decent manners (or fear of their parents), the only kind any sane person would allow near the microphone, the only damage you're looking at is higher chance of droppage and moisture concerns from them always practically eating the mic. I worked with a youth club where we'd let elementary schoolers on the mic, and I can't say I've seen anything even remotely similar to your concerns. Most parents teach thier kids not to smash other people's stuff pretty early on. So I'd say it is fairly comperable, because while they fumble the mic/knock over the stand a bit more, the microphone also doesn't travel, so the bumps from travel/setup likely even out.

[@KenTeel]

@@maromania7 Yes, I've been around some kids that were destructive. Of course some of this can be just a phase that they're going through. Other kids are well behaved. I'm glad that you've had a good crew. My experience with the GLS Audio ES58 has been very good. I wouldn't hesitate to buy a clone. One thing that I would say is: look at the solder joints inside the mic (If the mic quits working.) If they come loose, then, yes, the mic will quit working. But, that is an easy fix. Just resolder the wires to the connector. I've also used a Behringer mixing board for the past 25 years, hauling it around in a gig bag, and never had any problems outside of a power supply ac cable breaking one time. On that I just repaired it (resoldered the connection) That was just a wire breaking from being wrapped up in a gig bag, over and over and over, again. That's to be expected. The actual mixing board itself has performed flawlessly. Behringer makes good products. I would not hesitate to buy a Behringer product.

[@unknownadventures6248]

​@@maromania7 kids break things. its ok, they are kids and if they break something maliciously it usually isnt manners but some deeper issues. kids need to be well mannered everywhere to the point where a lot of them are not even allowed to be kids. a kid should not be afraid of theyre parents ever.

[@apock88]

On the electric guitar I actually prefered the XM8500 quite a bit more. On the Acoustic and vocals SM57 all the way.

[@saikousocial]

Man, this really made me appreciate how good the SM57 is. I thought I would like the XM8500, but hearing how well it does with the distorted guitars really put it into perspective as to why it's still such a widely used mic today.

[@AudioHaze]

For sure! Its a legend and a beast :)

[@dr.k6205]

Yes.

[@Von.Scrungy]

Super interesting, to my ears though the SM57 had more detail for clean guitar and spoken word. The XM8500 handled high distortion 'dirty' sound better than the SM57. Maybe the extra "muddiness" worked well to tone down some of the extra crunchy distortion so that it ended up sounding more detailed, whereas the SM57 almost sounded like it got overblown and ended up losing a lot of the detail it captures with clean guitar audio or spoken word audio.

[@AudioHaze]

Yeah I was really shocked at the XM8500 and how it handled the dirty tone, surprisingly tasteful high end, I even recorded it twice because I thought something went wrong lol

[@essp404]

Agree I was totally shocked with the dirty tone.

[@drewfasa]

Yup

[@MichaelW.1980]

Thanks for this video! Funny enough: I was able to not only hear the difference, but actually tell, which recording was which, without trying. Why? Because I own a Behringer BA 85A and a Shure Beta 58A. And I noticed exactly, what you described yourself on your comparison between the SM57 and the XM8500: That certain fuzzyness on the higher registers and a lot of mud the lower you go. That being said, the overall bang for buck I got was still shocking. Even tho my BA 85A isn’t as quiet as my Beta 58A, it still destroyed my RØDE Procaster in terms of rejecting background noise. So the pickup pattern works, even if the self noise level is rather „meh“. So yes, i Don’t like to admit it, but the CHEAP dynamic microphones from Behringer are actually worth it, if you can accept Behringers questionable ethics towards intellectual property.

[@AudioHaze]

Wow impressive! I'm glad your findings are the same as my own, still wonderful values at the end of the day though :)

[@alisongaze]

buying a xm8500 feels like buying from a black market. Its so cheap, it feels illegal.

[@AudioHaze]

That is such a good way to put it lol

[@lucascosta3922]

in my country a xm8500 is around 70 dollar's and a sm57 is 200 dollars note: the minimum wage is 280 dollar's yes I'm in pain

[@moses1440]

@@lucascosta3922That's sad bro

[@milesian1]

I'm just a podcaster, but I absolutely love your channel. You make incredibly helpful videos. I have both the XM8500 and the SM57, and they're really, really close. It's insane that a $20 mic can sound so good. Subscribed and appreciated.

[@clarinetninja]

Great stuff as always. The 57 was my entry point into mics at the beginning of the pandemic. I have more expensive stuff, but I still use it quite a bit. Someone who wants to see how they like recording would do incredibly well with the all behringer setup. I was forced to use my behringer interface a couple weeks ago. It was totally fine. That company is sketch though. But being set up for 50 bucks cures a lot of ills

[@AudioHaze]

The curse of behringer lol, good gear for cheap, but you're supporting a pretty shady company

[@offshoretomorrow3346]

Shady?

[@chanselur]

I still think you definitely had to compare it to your SM7, it's mind blowing how this microphone is just decent enough for many recording applications where thousands of uninformed people could've saved up 380 dollars with a bit of EQ. the world needs to watch this!!

[@drewfasa]

I consistently preferred the XM 8500 in the blind tests, and I'm a Shure fanboy and thought I was choosing the SM57 until you revealed.

[@ScottGrammer]

As $20 mics go, it's a great one. But as $90 mics go, the SM57/58 are pretty much unbeatable, and have been for decades. Every time you switch to the 57, it's like taking a blanket off the speakers.

[@H4KnSL4K]

Love your hair. Also, it looks like this '$20' microphone is currently $75 for me, two years later.

[@techmed-rainer]

Danke!

[@AudioHaze]

Thank you so much Rainer!

[@davidsillars3181]

It is amazing for the price. I got one to use with a portable recorder with an xlr to 3.5 jack. Works very well.

[@AudioHaze]

Yeah I was so shocked at the quality to be honest

[@ericdano]

The Pyle-Pro PDMIC78 is a great mic. If it isn't balanced, it's a simple solder job to make it so, and it make the mic sound great. Works great for drums and stuff.

[@AudioHaze]

Definitely want to try that one at some point :)

[@ericdannewitz8748]

@@AudioHaze It's like $30 and a soldering iron. Maybe replace the wires with something beefier while you are doing it......

[@waldemarpawlik1458]

@@ericdannewitz8748 A common mistake is thinking that "beefier" wires affect the sound or quality of a microphone. They don't.

[@thatchinaboi1]

I prefer the XM8500 for vocals over the SM57. I just bought the Rode NT1 5th Gen. The mic I really want is the MXL Revelation 2 multi polar pattern tube microphone. To me it sounds even better than the TLM103. BTW I am an audio engineer.

[@viktorbarnabas]

I absolutely love this comment. Your first statement is well connected to the subject. The second is not, but let’s consider it a bit of extra information, just to add color to the comment. The third and fourth ones seem to come out of absolutely nowhere, and we’ve got a sweet statement about your occupation as a P.S. You should not stop at this point; you might want to say something about how your day was or what you think about the silverback gorillas in captivity :D

[@sjbstro]

"If you're watching this, you have a terrible space too" genuinely made me chuckle (because it's so, so true)

[@WhutTheSchelp]

I have used the XM8500 for many years in live settings with rock and metal and praise bands. I have never had a soundman notice it wasn't a SM58 much less ask to switchpit my mic.

[@GarretClaridgeMeerkat]

Makes me wonder about the Peavey kits I used to run in my old music jams, I dont have them anymore but it was an SM58 knock off with a switch but came in a kit with the mic, boom stand, soft bag that fits it all and a very crap xlr cable for 50 CADS -- they worked well for PA singing and held up with drunks dropping them other than the cables that again were the worst ive ever seen, but the stand and mic super solid

[@PeterAlanJohnson]

I use up to 6 of the XM8500s for podcasting, they give great isolation at an unbeatable price (it’s available as “Nerdfest” if you want to hear. That’s in an untreated room with 4 or 5 people recording at once, using noise gates and some multitrack editing to reduce crossover and clean it up.)

[@AhaOk2398]

noise gates is last resort to me, but with 4-5 mics at the same time there's probably no other way. great way to reduce self-noise (and avoid using noise gates) would be getting cheap mic boosters, but that's both very clunky as well as pricey (additional xlr cables, costs of mic boosters)

[@PeterAlanJohnson]

@@AhaOk2398we don’t really get any significant self-noise from the XM8500, I just meant the gates clean up the crosstalk (and room reverb) picked up by the other mics.

[@wayneholmes637]

I get better results with expanders rather than gates when dealing with noise etc.

[@PeterAlanJohnson]

@@wayneholmes637 interesting- I do use a compressor to flatten the levels, so I guess a compander of some sort?

[@NiPaVou]

Few years ago I started doing some voice recording. Without doing any real research I bought the xm8500 just because it looked like the perfect starting point. It was so cheap I could throw it away immediately if I didnt like it. I'm still using the mic to this day :D

[@WillagerUwU]

How it is now and how long have you been using it? Just thinking to buy one

[@NiPaVou]

@@WillagerUwU it's been 3 years and I am satisfied with it. The recordings on my channel have been made with it, so you can check them to get an idea of its quality. Keep in mind I record in my room and not in a studio and there's some amateur sound editing

[@SnypieExe]

Dude, the XM8500 sounded 10 times better than the SM57 with distirsion guitar, this is mindblowing

[@Ethernalist]

You really did! Yeah this MIC def surprised me, some are actually using this mic to place it on a Shure like house casting to make it sound even better.

[@AudioHaze]

Yeah the XM8500 is killer!

[@nick334t9]

Hey man I found u a few weeks ago and I love ur vids there so informative and too the point which I love as I’m someone that’s beginning to enter the world of audio. Keep up the amazing work!

[@AudioHaze]

Thanks dude! Comments like this make my day, thank you so much for taking the time to tell me :)

[@nick334t9]

@@AudioHaze yah of course you’ve helped me understand mics and audio in general a lot. :)

[@CED.Dweller]

@AudioHaze Thanks for this comparison. I'm looking for a couple of good cheap mics for podcasting. The XM5000 looks like the top contender right now.

[@AudioHaze]

Its definitely worth your time :)

[@EqDior]

i like the 8500 on the electric and the 57 on the acoustic mic. awesome vid!

[@Noel-jk3jy]

um2 is great, preamp is good, inst input does what its supposed to. ive had it for like 7 years now. knobs still very smooth with good resistance. i think behringers xm8500 and sl75c are improvements on shure

[@Thatbobguy8]

I have the Behringer and for $20 it's not bad. Will never replace the 57 but the build quality is workable. If you are starting off and just need some beater mics, you can absolutely start with the Behringers.

[@johnlackner1193]

Good choice if you need to get 12 of them and use them for a discssion panel in a breakout room and run the PA through some ceiling speakers.

[@davidchristian2705]

Love the storytelling!

[@tristanwh9466]

I definitely preferred the sound of the sm57 but half as good of 1/4 of the price is a pretty amazing deal (especially when you're comparing it with one of the best value mics ever made)

[@AudioHaze]

Add a bit of processing and I think it can certainly compete (at least when it doesn't have to fight in a mix)

[@theoutsiderjess1869]

I have the Xm8500 and I love it but I also want a shure sm58 one day I think both are great

[@DUNHILLLIGHT11]

i got both but i prefer xm8500 more than shure sm58

[@skorpers]

Recent price reduction to $16.53 makes this mic OP.

[@Spetsnazty]

Owning a 58 and the xm8500 it’s insane how similar they are. I do have to put about 3db more into the sm58 so everyone’s info is the same. With slight EQ, its hard for me to tell the difference if I go back and forth while reading aloud. My 58 sounds a bit more smooth, like how people view the 7b compared to the 58.

[@m1nnefr3d]

Penny-pinching me bought a SHURE SM48LC istead of one of its renowned siblings quite a while ago - and: I totally love it 💕 Even bought a second one for stereo recordings. In theory, the SM57/58 should be »superior«, but I don't care. My 48s are perfect for vocals and acoustic guitar and that's what convinced my ears. Highly recommended though by no means as affordable as Uli B.'s mics.

[@DaisyChaine]

i have had my 58 for going on 10ish years now, it's still the best budget mic and has been since forever. if it's good enough for elliott smith it's good enough for me (he made his first 2 albums with just that mic iirc, but judging by the taste of this channel, Smith's work is way beyond this type on nonsense)

[@lukogs]

I have 2 doubts. 1. Your recommendation that this is good enough for bare minimum setup. I saw some videos that pencil condenser mic (mostly saw samson c02) should be used Instead of shotgun for untreated room. Is this true? 2. As stated above, the Samson c02 is sometimes titled as indoor dialogue mic. Are there different mic for different audio? My usecase is music recording & sometimes interview.

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

Hi I think I can answer this 1. Yes shotgun mics should not be used indoors in untreated rooms. The effect of comb filtering on shotgun mics is very pronounced and can render the audio unusable. Pencil mics don't suffer from this nearly as much because they don't have interference baffles. The c02 will work. I own a behringer b-5 that is a pretty dang good instrument and dialogue mic. If you are planning on using this for singing, I would recommend an LDC instead. SDCs usually can't be close-mic'd to a singer without sounding uncomfortably bright. They will sound good from a distance but then you have to deal with room noise and reflections. You can get much closer to and LDC and use the proximity effect (many are designed this way) and being so close tends to minimize interference from room reflections. The Behringer b-1 is a good budget LDC for that.

[@Rob_Thomson]

Great video! Thanks for doing this comparison. I liked the XM8500 better on the dirty guitar, but preferred the SM57 for cleans. Interesting.

[@JHGurganus]

Great video thanks! Did I miss the results of the voiceover test? I believe I was liking mic #1 better. Great vid 🪕🎻🎸

[@michaelmichael7043]

Hi audiohaze!. Mmm... interesting comparison. I do totally understand why the behriger popularity,but, As a sm 58 guitar user for 30 years the sm 57 has a more natural Sound it has this upper midrange which bring out the best of a guitar amp. Thanks again for a great review.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍

[@AudioHaze]

Hey! Thanks Michael :) I tend to agree, but the XM8500 is a great budget mic none-the-less

[@EricLefebvrePhotography]

OUCH MY FEELINGS! LOL! I was looking at the interface on your desk going "I'm going to get burnet aren;t I.". Running a BM800 into the UM2 since 2018 ... looking at upgrading this year.

[@mikhel4048]

On most of the tests, I was drawn to the 8500. The only real standout was the acoustic guitar test imo which is the only instance I really would have preferred to use the Sm57. In general, if you want something brighter and “cleaner”, I think you should grab the 57, but if you like filthy grungy darker tones, grab the 8500. Better yet, have both

[@somethingelsedoesmatter]

Was hoping to be convinced I don't need to buy an SM57 but the Boxing Day deal's looking mighty fine right now

[@maximeheberttalbot4505]

I have 8 of them lol, I mic everything live with em, love the xm8500, end up giving away my 57s!

[@RobVespa]

Came here from Podcastage... glad I did! All the best.

[@sysdevman]

An interesting experiment is to remove the mesh ball grill. After all, the SM 57 just has a different grill than the SM 58. So how would removing the grill XM 8500 sound?

[@elprofe6113]

If you lower lows and give some highs you have a much better mic. I have 3 of them and with +highs and -lows works great.

[@bernardkriel1]

its not only the sound tho.....you can drag an SM57/58 through a mine field and it will still perform......

[@AudioHaze]

That is very true, or in my case, under water lol

[@peterboyle5421]

57 and 58 are not the same mic, they simply aren't. The thing about the Behringer (At 20 bucks) is, it's great for what it will do, but it's not that good for what it can't do. The same goes for the 57 and 58, these are stage mics that will last a thousand years, mine are over 20 years old and still do there job just fine. The most important thing is how they sound for what you are using them for, that's the same for ANY mic, trust your ears, test them out at a place like guitar center or the like, read the reviews, do your homework before you put down any money.

[@MisterDivineAdVenture]

Rockin-it! Loved your 7B Fake Roast - I subscribed.

[@ptr_does_music7042]

Call me crazy but the clean and dirty electric guitar licks somehow felt brighter and poppier to me on the xm8500. The sm57 felt like it was occupying too much space in the lows

[@enado18]

Holy cow, the dirty guitar with the SM57! This was the highlight of my day, thanks!

[@AudioHaze]

Thanks dude! This comment made mine :)

[@baymukemmel]

Bro i have watched couple videos but i couldn't any answer. Do i have to buy an audio interface for this mic? Im just thinking use this with xlr to 3.5mm/usb cable. Is this a mistake?

[@clementinelives]

an interface would be your best choice, xlr to usb cables are known to provide lower quality

[@silyukov]

xlr balanced or unbalanced?

[@JUANBLANCO-j9n]

nicely done, i like your stile.

[@AudioHaze]

Thanks!

[@claudeprince6724]

8:05 The best part of the video. I got it coz it was cheap. Didn't know it was Godlike on dirty tones. Should try it on a raspy voice...

[@oceanwave4142]

I wonder how it will sound like when I finally can try this 2 mic setup: one is Samson CO1 the other is SM57 with the Shure foam made for it (which is not the same as a SM58 soundwise btw, it sounds more natural)

[@yeeyee647]

imo it's good, but most people will want to upgrade to the sm57/58s later down the line. So it's good for people who have literally no money, but for people with money I see no reason to get it when you can invest 80 more bucks into mics that sound better, need less eq, and will last basically all your life

[@realsmt]

The quotes at the end are kind of tough to convince anyone of. It’s extremely difficult to make an sm7b sound bad, about as difficult as it is to make this behringer sound really good. Audio samples were great, overview and comparisons fantastic. The value the behringer offers is tremendous. Might get one for my daughter, I’ll buy the shure for me. 😂

[@AudioHaze]

I would actually disagree! I think there are plenty of people who misuse the SM7, and if you have a good chain and a good technique, its not hard to overtake the VO quality of a lot of SM7 users, simply because the the SM7 probably is the most improperly used mic out there, in my opinion :)

[@realsmt]

@@AudioHaze shoot me a vid of someone using an sm7b poorly. This I gotta see. When I bought mine, I bought a high quality interface with clean pre amps. A quality xlr cable. That's it, everything is fantastic. What are people doing wrong?

[@maromania7]

I wonder if it was a marketing gimmick since they're now far more similar prices, but depending on your usage that's still great for the price!

[@wayneholmes637]

Similar prices? The XM8500 costs 22€ here and the SM57 between 105€ and 119€.

[@johnlase4376]

Hey i listen your opinion so it matterd to me so much i bought the sm57. Please do a review on the sterling p30

[@essp404]

Very tempted for an extra instrument mic... but anyone had a gander at the b906?

[@Mike-ol7xp]

I through the years have had more people grab for an XM8500 than the SM58, so much so that I now have Just as many XM8500's as I do the SM58's. They both equally have their place, I love all my Shures but I like the 8500's just the same. It's all subjective at the end of the day really.

[@23L3V3NS]

Wow! That's effin' ridiculous! I'm all about frugality until fluidity... This is giving me ma vibes. .

[@t3floz]

good video! Thinking of buying this but doesn it pick up much backround noice like from a keyboard? Im a gamer :)

[@raresdragan4610]

I was surprised that for voice and electric guitar I like the XM8500 better than the SM57

[@michaelpaul1619]

any comparison to the TBone MB57 clone mic?

[@meinemeinungzuxy]

Very nice video. Thanks for sharing.

[@stewiegriffin2143]

Never show any fear around geese they sense it and flog Turn toward it and push your chest out and attack There will be no fight

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

This is the best comment in the whole comment section.

[@jeverett1769]

The sm57 definitely sounds better imo, but the xm8500 sounds great for a starter microphone if you want to learn how to eq the muddiness- might be a good learning experience for a beginner

[@crazygreek6341]

FINALLY praise the lord for the XM8500!

[@TonyChamberlist]

My 1st exposure to Behringer was the blatant Aphex and Mackie ripoffs... It taught me to be properly suspicious of them as a company, and especially the quasi-sociopathic Uli Behringer. I also had the classic Behringer graveyard in my garage... That said, I have a few B products that are just splendid ( Nuke 6000 4 channel power amp, a few active DI's and a pair of cheap passive pa speakers.). I'll also never forgive them for throwing Presonus an anchor when they purchased TC and promptly did away with access to the Firewire/AVB chips that Presonus was using for their Ai series digital mixers, leaving them with half baked functionality and more than a few frustrated and angry customers (I'm one of them). Conclusion: They are a horribly compromised company, yet so many of us have benefited from their IP thievery.

[@Jose_T131]

have the same AI, how do you remove the noise floor ?

[@aRandomHomelabber]

review the sl75c next 🙂

[@Tomas.Mauleon]

tengo uno y anda increible! igualmente yo no lo usaria (a menos que busque el sonido especial opaco) para grabar guitarras de high gain. pero para voces anda muuuy bien, para un podcast o para tener algo en vivo que se la banque! saludos

[@havespacesuitwilltravel9607]

They sound different for sure but is one definitely better? I dunno...

[@JohnShalamskas]

In the acoustic guitar demo, I am curious why you oriented the mics nowhere near 90 degrees relative to the guitar neck. It looks like they are almost pointed at the sound hole. Does it boost the bass to match the midrange?

[@AudioHaze]

Pointing it at the sound hole picks up a more even bottom end without all the woofiness that will result from placing it directly in front of it. Keeping it at the 12th fret pointed out the sound cool picks up the brighter transients at the neck :) here's a video about it - kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5mofqanq8Rma5o

[@JohnShalamskas]

@@AudioHaze Thanks!

[@swampdweller5]

Great video. I enjoyed it. Btw- those birds are called Canada geese. (Not Canadian geese) But I agree they are terrifying! Kind regards

[@DaleLadDaz]

hey, if I wanted to record audio memories from elderly family members using just my macbook and these xm8500 (x2 one for me to ask questions, one for family to recall memories) what equipment would i need? The uphoria has 1 mic input, obviously I would need a mixer with 2 mic inputs was looking at the xenyx 302usb mixer but that only has 1 mic input too...I am stumped and never used recording equipment before so this is all new to me.

[@cliplash]

it sounds so similar if not slightly muddier

[@SamMaskery]

I’ll be honest in the blind voice test I wasn’t looking at the screen I didn’t realise they were switching

[@gustaveriksson9091]

what mic is the best for song you think?

[@peacefulruler1]

XM8500 is unpleasant sounding. If you’re that deaf, do some listening comparisons until you can hear. If you think you’re saving money by sounding cheap, you’ll find out better in a few years.

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

The Behringer is undeniably good value, but it's obvious listening to the test why the SM57 is the better mic :)

[@bnpray2279]

I think I should get XM8500 asap and compared it to my SL75C because back when I bought it my ideal was that it will be the nearest to SM57/58 replica, but I'm a little disappointed with it, the gain is notably low, I have to crack up my audio interface gain (around 80-90%) but in a result of noise. is this right? I use UMC202 HD, this is my first dynamic mic, I used to use a condenser mic and never pass 50% gain in the interface in a pretty much similar untreated room, and my noise level was always acceptable

[@gustaveriksson9091]

I thinking of buying the xm8500 or the SL75C. Have you test them both?

[@fairboop]

i have xm8500 and i like it a lot but its incredibly quiet no matter what i try :(

[@AudioHaze]

Oh no! Perhaps your interface doesn't have enough gain? If you're running an AudioBox USB or something like that, it may not be able to power it

[@cam-inf-4w5]

Lets be honest we all have to eq anyway. So a mic not having a glaring flaw is better than a mic that has a great sound but is like fizzy or something.

[@filmgruppefranktfurt1830]

Got this mike last week for a client project. Its awfully close to my Rode PodMic.

[@AudioHaze]

Nice!

[@yadanxiao2095]

Hey bro,do you interested check out xvive wirless mic?

[@noahpearson2190]

youtubers with bad mirophones I can't listen to but for some reason the beringer sound nice enough for me to listen to a hole youtube video.

[@tempeight]

If Behringer XM8500 is compared with Behringer SL 75C, which mic you will choose?

[@TC_Conner]

Gimme the SM57 (I use 2 of em), but I'm usin the XM8500 too, I kinda know what I'm doin and can get the XM8500 to sound like I want it to sound. (I'm curious to know if you use a humidifier in your Taylor acoustic? I have a horror/miraculous recovery story about my Martin D28, and a Fender Acoustisonic Tele.)

[@AudioHaze]

I used to use a humidifier yes, but not these days, I probably should though :/

[@TC_Conner]

@@AudioHaze There's an easy test you can do to give you an indication of problems: take one sheet of regular paper, printer paper or notebook paper, lay it flat on the bottom of your Taylor just behind the bridge and see if the paper slides under the bridge. If it does, you should have a qualified luthier give it good check up. 😎🎸😎

[@Dobroz99]

Recording 57, live, save your money. Thanks so much always learn from your videos.

[@cresshead]

Superb A/B mic review well done.

[@AudioHaze]

Thanks man!

[@zachary963]

Also like for “you know darn well you have a crappy sounding room”

[@hkmrsrg1367]

I own this, how do I EQ this mic or what settings on OBS should the cempressor be. Because I ended up using it without EQ nor compressor for singing.

[@billlord4203]

There is not standard answer to these questions other than use your ears. Put on a good pair of headphones, change the EQ as you are listening and choose the setting that sounds best for your particular needs. Same process applies for compression. It depends on the environment, the vocalist, the style you are going for - numerous factors.

[@lucaslu9095]

How about the Donner PO-8?

[@AudioHaze]

Haven't had the chance to check it out yet!

[@lucaslu9095]

@@AudioHaze Please check e-mail.

[@pokepress]

I’m imagining you running out of the room scream if/when your kid turns on PBS.