MV7+ | SM7B | SM58 | SM57 | Shure Microphone Comparison

[@kennethdarlington]

Wow, such a small difference but... Sm 58&57 are having more high frequencies. Could you try to record them using pop filter from sm7b?🙂

[@dannylightning-audio-reviews]

The handheld microphones lose a lot of the high-end if you take one of those foam wind screens and put them on there I actually have the windscreen that's made for the SM57, it's designed to fit specifically on that microphone and it's basically the same type of foam and it sounds much darker and a lot more similar to the SM7B. A lot of people will actually remove the phone windscreen off the front of the SS7B to make it sound a lot brighter. In my opinion that microphone sounds better if you take off the windscreen but it does look a little funny if you have it on camera but if you take the same windscreen from the SM7B and put it on one of the other microphones it doesn't look right it looks really really weird but they do lose a huge portion of the low end. Maybe I'll make a video on how a wind screen can change the sound of your microphone sometime in the near future. I don't know if they make any type of windscreen specifically for the 58, it's got a little bit of foam built into the ball but it's still pretty thin foam so it doesn't do a whole lot compared to a real windscreen or a real pop filter

[@sandrinedreeny6189]

Great video! I am hesitating between Shure MV7+ AND SM7dB + interface shure MVX2U (to make it USB). Which one would you recommend? I have no gears and want to do video podcasting/ youtube interviews with remote guest using Riverside. I want to keep it simple but with good sound. Does the MV7+ requires an interface or amp boost to sound good? Thank you!

[@dannylightning-audio-reviews]

Podcastage has a great review on that little shure interface you're talking about, I'm not super familiar with it but I'm not sure that he loved it if I remember correctly so you may want to go watch that review but when it comes to the SM7B it's a very basey and dark sounding microphone, for somebody who has a high-pitched voice the SM7B is great but for somebody who has a deeper voice you often really need to do a lot of EQ work and boost the high end up, if a voice sounds too bassy and there's not enough high end let's just say you're gaming or there's music in the background sometimes your voice will be a little muffled and hard to understand and sound buried behind the background sounds and then if you reduce the base a little bit and boost up the highs it'll be much easier for somebody to understand your voice when there's background music or background noise. I think generally the SM7B requires a lot of EQ work on some people's voices especially if they have a dark or a deeper voice, but if you have a high-pitched voyage that can get fatiguing on the ears you don't want a bright microphone because you don't want it to sound too bright and the SM7D really helps people with a bright voice , not too long ago audio hotline hosted some sort of video with the SM7B and he has a really high-pitched voice and man it sounded excellent and I mean excellent on his voice but on my voice I got to boost the high in like crazy and reduce the lows to really get it where I want it. On the MV7 I don't really have to do that so it really depends on your voice as to which one you're going to prefer. They're both very high quality microphones but room acoustics and your voice all play a huge part in this. Listen to as many reviews for each microphone as you can find and see how they sound on different people's voices and that should probably help you decide but I think either one of these on XLR sound very nice if the microphone works well with your voice I never use a cloud lifter or a game booster on anything I mean I can crank my preamps to almost max volume and you're barely going to notice the little bit of white noise unless you're really listening to it at a loud volume so personally if you're using the microphones properly like two three four inches away from your mouth You're not going to need a gain booster on most microphones I mean I have a couple and I don't ever use them because I don't think it's important or necessary like a lot of people make it out to be, unless your audio interface just can't provide enough game to power the microphone or if you just got the microphone so far away that you need to crank up the gain higher than most interfaces can give you that's kind of when you add the cloud lifter type of deal but no I don't think it needs one but some people do

[@mclaramy2906]

I can't see any difference. even with headphones. it's probably because of the voice...

[@dannylightning-audio-reviews]

I'm not sure what kind of headphones you're listening with, for example if I put on a set of studio monitor headphones there's some pretty significant differences between them, if I put on my cheap set of headphones they sound a lot more similar, well they're not really cheap but they're not really designed to let you hear all the details and stuff in a piece of audio. My voice mainly seems to have a lot of energy in the lower mid-range frequencies I can still hear the differences when I put on my monitor headphones

[@mclaramy2906]

@@dannylightning-audio-reviews Correct!😉 I had the DJ headphones on, with studio headphones I heard it after all.👍

[@dannylightning-audio-reviews]

Thing is most people are probably listening on a set of less revealing headphones or their phone speaker or their TV speakers or something so there's probably a lot of people that watch these videos and go everything sounds the same lol. Actually surprises me is when I'm listening on my home stereo with a set of really high-end speakers I can't hear that much of a difference between microfilms but on some studio monitors I sure can I kind of wonder if you had to set up reference home stereo speakers if that would make a difference I've never actually owned a set of reference speakers before for a home stereo

[@Queef_Storm]

I don't currently have good enough speakers to detect any differences. Was the MV7+ better than the SM57?

[@dannylightning-audio-reviews]

They both have a different sound, which one you like better is really going to be subjective and which one sounds better on your voice is also a different story, I think the SM-58 it's a nice flat response and sounds pretty natural, something like the MV7 Plus has more of that warmer podcast type of sound, now on USB the MV7 Plus doesn't sound very good but they're working on a firmware update to change the way it sounds a little bit after some of us microphone reviewers complained but I think on XLR it sounds pretty Nice, does it sound a couple of hundred dollars better I'm not so sure, You're saying you don't have something to listen on that'll let you hear any major differences and that's the case for a lot of people, now I can listen to microphone comparisons on my home stereo and I hear some various slight differences but when listening on some studio monitors or monitor headphones That's when I can really start to hear the major differences and sound so most people aren't going to be listening on something where they hear that big of a difference, I mean you definitely want to make sure you're getting a a nice quality microphone because a real cheap piece of crap will sound like a cheap piece of crap but some of the nicer budget microphones sound pretty good and most name brand microphone sound really good but I could probably talk into a $99 handheld microphone and a $3,000 studio microphone and the majority of people probably wouldn't notice that much of a difference but some will

[@Queef_Storm]

@@dannylightning-audio-reviews Thank you, my friend. Good to know!