ShureLegendary Dynamic Studio Vocal Microphone, Black, Sm7B & Gator Frameworks Deluxe Desk-Mounted Broadcast Microphone Boom Stand For Podcasts & Recording; Integrated XLr Cable (Gfwbcbm3000)

Now I understand why this mic is so popular and people simply love it. It's worth paying for. Simply go for it if you do podcasting, voice over, and online meetings. In order to pare it, you need another fantastic product called Rodecaster Pro that will give this mic the proper amount of gain. Rodecaster will also offer you some additional benefits and you'll have your own home studio all set up. Don't wait any longer. Take this microphone and start recording. Happy recording.

If you're looking to improve your current budget XLR mic setups and saved up enough, this is one of the best upgrades that you can make to your setup.Keep in mind that this mic needs a lot of gain to function properly, but since I use it with my GoXLR it runs perfect without the need of a cloud lifter.As the name says, it's legendary.Worth the price premium!

Shure SM7B is the Number 1 Dynamic Microphone, nothing can beat it. it's clean signal, sound like Broadcast it also need a mic booster like cloudlifter or Fethead to give it clean 20 db signal so you won't have to crank the gain level to maximum and start to hear hiss sound.

I have been an amateur recording artist for some while. Always fiddling around trying new gear.I used a Rhode-NT1 before for vocals but the SM7 just blows it out of the water. The clarity with presence boost engaged helps vocals cut through mix without that brittle bite of a condenser. Much smoother and warmer and not so prone to picking up room noise. I do use a Klark Teknik line booster (Cloud lifter) in line before going to my sound card.

One of the best thing which you can buy with your money .Its worth every penny . heavy , precise , beautiful . Performs in every way as it advertised .. You can buy it blindly

Don’t think twice if you can afford it Go for it. Nothing comes close to it when it comes to the price and quality.

Decent for whispering into the mic for streaming, if you’re a loud person and move around a lot in your room I suggest going for RE-20

Very impressive product with an amazing sound. Pretty expensive.

I'm a musician/singer/songwriter and produce/engineer my own music with 3 album releases, yet being independent I have no claim to commercial funding so every piece of equipment I buy is a precious investment. I bought my SM7B after much research and have done numerous audio tests in my studio, with some preliminary recordings for a planned new album. (I put in this boring self-description so you can judge where I'm coming from in writing this review).I believe many/most people buy this microphone without fully understanding what they are buying. The Shure name and the hype about Michael Jackson recording with it tends to cloud the judging process, so for many it's a quick decision to buy. But a more detailed analysis reveals more characteristics and with better understanding you can put aside the hype and probably appreciate theSM7B for what it truly is : a fantastic Dynamic microphone with a SM58-like character that works for robust studio-recordings IF you have a high-quality high-gain preamp to use with it.Being a dynamic microphone, it does not have it's own preamp and is thus not as sensitive as a condenser mic. It's therefore not very useful for recording delicate singing voices, it's just not sensitive enough. But it will handle loud,screaming vocals easily, the capsule is robust enough to take in all that high energy. This is just the physics/science of microphones: dynamic mics handle loud sounds better, condensers handle delicate things better.But the SM7B is not like the Shure SM58 dynamic mic, it's capsule elements are thinner and much more sensitive, so it's sensitivity does lean towards the condensers, but being a dynamic mic this sensitivity comes at the expense of it only being able to produce a weak signal, so it needs a preamp with plenty of clean gain before the signal can be used.....if you really think hard about it, it is thus trying to be like a condenser mic, but whereas a condenser mic has a built-in preamp, this SM7B needs an external preamp! In-between, that's where it is.But the story gets more interesting. The SM7B has "character"... the audio pattern mimics the legendary SM58's presence-boosting curve, so the SM7B can give your recorded voice the classic Shure SM58 "live" character if you know how to use it right (though again you need to keep in mind that it's never going to be as delicate as a condenser mic, still if you know what you're doing you might find it a worthy trade-off to get great character with the loss of some delicate-ness. Post-recording engineering, a bit of compression and you're back in the game.)Misconception: There is a presence-boosting switch. Nope. What the switch does is take away the presence to give you a flat-response curve, i.e. in its natural state the presence is already boosted, the switch is misleading, the flat-response is the altered state.Misconception: The pop-filters (windscreens) provided give you a natural sound. No they don't. They filter off the high-frequencies, giving you a flatter sound. This is perfect for podcasting, and you can speak with your mouth close to the mic without having pops (use the thinner or thicker filter, depending on how robust your POP-ing is getting), but for singing you want to take off the windscreens, leave the metal grill exposed, and use a proper external POP filter.For recording of a singer, the magic comes with a proper external POP filter, no need for a super-expensive one, but one with at least a double-grille and larger (6inch minimum) diameter. Shure sells such a POP filter, good enough for the task. Once you're using a proper external pop filter, you can place it really close to the metal grille front, have your SM7B switches without bass-cut and with the presence-boost on (as I said it earlier this is actually a no-presence-cut position rather than a real boost)...and you can record your singing in all it's glory, your voice gets recorded as if you were winging with a Shure SM58 on steroids, i.e the "character" of the mic is there. There is no need to switch off this presence, you can always do so in the mixing stage. You thus end up recording with a high degree of sensitivity yet having a very low noise floor (the advantage of a dynamic mic).The is not much proximity effect with this mic, the metal grille extends far beyond the capsule element so your mouth cannot get really too close to the capsule. (Hats off to the Shure engineers for this bit of idiot-proofing). Imagine a super-sensitive SM58 with a Blues singer planting his lips of the grille and you're recording his voice in a studio, and you're in 'POP hell...now you appreciate the engineering :)Apologies for the lengthy review, but I do believe I've given an honest description of the important details. PODcast users may find this mic overkill but hey if you have the cash then flout it, though you could get the same audio with a cheap condenser with a big windshield and some EQ work. Recording vocalists with a more dynamic vocal range is where the SM7B will probably shine, and especially with louder vocalists, or for recording alongside other instruments being played simultaneously, where the bleed from other sounds is significantly reduced with such a cardiod-pattern dynamic mic.I'm very happy with this mic, have done tons of audio tests with it. I'll use it for my more rocking vocals, leaving the delicate ballads to a condenser mic. Hope this review helps you decide what's best for you, make the best use of your hard-earned $. Cheers.

Before you drop this much money on a microphone... make sure you understand what it’s geared towards.If you are a musician with a lot of immediate background noise, in a small poorly treated room (acoustically speaking)... this is your microphone.Keep in mind though the costs do not stop with the purchase of this mic.You will need a quality microphone amplifier to even run it, and that will cost you more than the microphone itself.After you have purchased all of the gear... be prepared to chew on the microphone.....You need to get REALLY close to this thing to make it work... never mind sound good.If you are a youtuber wanna-be, be prepared for this giant sausage to consume half your frame.This is a very good microphone for a very specific application. Lots of background noise, and little regard for what it looks like on camera.If you are tubing, or streaming.... there are WAY better options for a significant less investment.Look at Rode PodMic, or a something else that is going to give you some range and let the preamp gate/compressor eliminate the subtle background noise. You don’t need a live venue noise box Mic at ridiculous investment to achieve quality sound.

Lo Shure SM7B è il microfono adatto a chiunque voglia far della propria voce un capolavoro, adattabile a ogni situazione, IO ad esempio lo uso nelle mie stream collegandolo a un Mixer GOXLR e impostando i giusti parametri è una favola, l'unica pecca(che pecca non è perchè chi compra questo microfono dovrebbe saperlo) è che necessita per l'appunto di un mixer qualsiasi per essere collegato e quindi non è adatto a piccoli streamer o a persone che non vogliono spendere soldi per un mixer. Ci tengo a dire che insieme al microfono NON è presente nessun tipo di cavo XLR, quello va comprato a parte. Spero che la mia recensione sia stata d'aiuto a tutti voi!

From what I read, the only negative reviews are from people who have zero or very little knowledge of how a microphone works. It's actually embarrassing to see their "review" and to have so many "helpful" likes on them. The mic is incredible. I use it for recording YouTube videos. In order from my mouth to the computer I have the SM7B on the PSA1 boom arm connected to an XLR cable connected to the Fethead connected to the Focusrite 2i2 which connects to my laptop. Some people claim the Fethead should be connected to the mic side but it makes no difference at all. When called out about this, they say it's not the Fethead's fault but cheap XLR cables. So I plugged in some Amazon Basics XLR cables and it works fantastic with the Fethead on the Focusrite side. People like to just spew non-sense for the fun of it. One piece I didn't mention is the Shure A26X 3" Extension Tube. I have this hooked up between the mic and the psa1 boom arm. This piece is optional but if you search for that piece on YouTube, you will see why you may like to have it. I paid around $20 Canadian for it. The mic sounds absolutely fantastic for professionally made YouTube videos and cuts out a lot of the background noise. I also had the SM57. The background noise is about the same but the quality of the SM7B is better. It also gives you options to help make it compliment your voice unlike the SM57 or SM56. Those are both fantastic mics, but you can't beat the SM7B and it looks so much cooler than having that massive ugly grey windscreen on it that you have to buy for the SM57. Just take the cash hit and invest in this setup. It's brilliant.

I ordered a Shure SM7B around November last year and thought it was a genuine product. Have just confirmed with Shure Agent that it was a counterfeit.