Janet's Mics - Shure Beta 58A vs Neumann KMS 105 + sE V7

[@jtops3000]

I bought a couple of fake beta 58a’s back on 2009. They sounded very close to the real ones. I knew this because we had singers who brought their own microphones and they sounded very similar to mine. The blue bands, on the fakes, fell off fairly quickly. They also had a faint smell of petroleum. The capsules looked only slightly dissimilar to the real ones. The durability was good. I no longer own it. I left it at a place just before the pandemic, and I did not want to go back over there to retrieve it. It only cost me 15$ a mic. So I wasn’t out too much dough. They always sounded a bit muddy on my baritone voice. I prefer a brighter sounding electrovoice or senheiser, to give my voice more clarity.

[@image66media]

That echos my own experience with the fakes. The fakes act more like Audix microphones in that the drop off as the lip-grill distance is increased is much more dramatic. Real Shures have a predictable fall-off. But at normal and fixed lip-grill distances, they seem almost identical.

[@S.T.G.]

I've got two fakes from Ali; they were sold as "high quality" and "top quality" copies. The two fakes sound the same for me and these are the most open sounding dynamics I own (almost like condensers). Once I rented a real Beta 58A to compare (at least I hope that it was a real one) and the fakes were more open than the original, although with slightly less bass. And the fakes produced more handling noise.

[@ninjabluewings]

When you go back over to Rockbottom please pick up the AKG D33O-BT to test out, this was the touring microphone choice of ABBA back in the day and there is no other reviews on it on KZbin and it would be most interesting to hear your thoughts on it