Why Is The Shure SM58 Such A Popular Microphone?

I use it in its budget alternatives for making 90s style hip hop. It just gives that feel that that style of music needs. A lot of people like to emulate the 90s style but they use really clean modern equipment and software and wonder why their music doesn't sound like it's from the 90's

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Thank you for this video. I'm on the hunt for the perfect mic & I think I just found it.

I just bought a 57 with its official wind shield. I love it for my video podcast. The mat black looks great on camera and the sound it perfect for my untreated room.

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I was trying to find the best vocal mic and this review was great!

Thank you for this info. Great stuff.

Good explanation!

Shure I'll buy one

where switch on off at mic?

How do you connect the microphone?

I LOVED SHURE ANY OF THEM BUT SHURE, BUT WHEN I SANG THEY THOUGHT IT CAME FROM THE CD, YOU DON'T NEED TO HIGH YOUR VOICE, AND AFFORDABLE IT WON'T LET YOU DOWN, HIGH QUALITY PERFORMANCE IS PHENOMENAL.

How loud can it get? I realize in the studios Im not singing loud enough and my voice is getting drowned out by the live instruments. Can it amplify your voice to be audible enough over instruments?

Just bought one today and it's fantastic

sir i want to do voice over I want professional quality. But my room is not sound proof. I want to record poetry. Whose emotional low voice and high voice have to be recorded. Which audio interface and microphone would be best for me? My budget total is $400. In which the complete studio setup is done. i have laptop

As an owner of a Shure SM57 and an SM7B, I can say that Shure really makes good microphones!
I have yet to try the 58 tho

Hi, what stand or boom arm would you recommend for the SM58?

I just ordered this microphone. So it's good to hear such positive things about it. I'm surprised it's been around for so long. When I ordered this (to replace my audio-technica AT2005), I was thinking it was something new. I just hope this works on my computer with my XRL-to-USB cable I bought. Or I'm gonna feel like crying.

I love this microphone. Last year I worked for a pro indoor lacrosse (NLL) team as their public address announcer, and the microphone that the arena supplies is an SM58S. It was absolutely perfect and my voice sounds better thru that microphone than any other one I've used before. I've now bought my own SM58S to use when announcing hockey games from various leagues, from youth hockey tournaments to the USHL and NCAA D3

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I grabbed a Lewitt 240 pro and the Shure beta 57a, both are absolutely fantastic mics. Very inexpensive mics, with top quality sound and build. Great review btw.

great review it makes me want to go buy one.

Hello, I wanted to ask a question that I have wanted to ask for a long time:

I have the sm58 microphone that I bought about a year ago.

The whole time I use it, I have 3 problems.

1. The volume is very low even when I'm close to the microphone.

2. When I speak, a weak "white noise" starts playing in the background, which is only disturbing when speaking.

3. Even if I connect it to phantom 48v still remains the same.

Do you know what to do in such a situation?
I would be happy to answer if you can.🙏

Thank you in advance.

After having studied audio for 20 years. The SM58 is nasally funky piece of garbage like all handheld stage dynamic mics. The 5kHz peak on these things are a bad tuning and they should be able to make a better tuning by now. SM7b is too dark and still retains the 6khz lump from SM57.

Update to a more professional studio microphone you say. This is the standard upon which others came and it stands its ground. That's why I love it.

Thanks for this great video!
Two little questions: Is it possible to connect the SM58 with a pc with a xlr to 3.5 cable and record some things with for example audacity?

And does anyone know if the "head" of the beta (what is it called? Capsule? Mean the round metal thing) would fit also on the sm58? I like the blue stripe, but would prefer the sound of the sm58 I guess... ;-)

Not a fan of people talking over music

Simple its a legand! Tough rugged sounds nice the noise is not from the mic itself its from noisey preamps

Yup, love my Beta 87, but my Beta 58 has been with me for at least 25 years. Tried and true, Shure, a company you can rely on!

I have used many broadcast mics since the 1960s and listened to a lot of live material where the vocal mics are SM58s. I think engineers need to be care using the SM58 and similar microphones. I swear the SM58, with it's relatively high output, can overdrive (most likely) the first preamp stage enough that the midrange sounds a bit torn. I've hear other types of mic in the same gig that (for whatever reason) deliver cleaner vocals. It's almost as if the preamp can't handle the combination of loud rock & roll singing and the the mic's output characteristics. Anyone else encountered this?

Just a minor correction. Steel is rarely if ever die cast outside of some esoteric ultra expensive application due to the high temperature and atmosphere that would be required, not to mention a die that could handle it. It would definitely not be done for a stage microphone. The main housing of the SM58 is made from die cast zinc, you can test it as steel is magnetic and zinc is not. The head basket is steel with I believe a nickel plating. I’ve used 100s of microphones to make recordings. If you can’t make a good recording using this microphone (SM58), it is 1. Inappropriate for the application, 2. You are incompetent, ignorant or both!

There wouldn't be Volvos or Ferraris without the Ford Model-T, but no one says "everyone should own" the latter.

Great video

I have had my SM58 for about 10 years now. I have used many different clones of this mike over the years. While some are fairly close I don't have any that really compare to my SM58.

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There are two SM58 days. America has May 8th and the UK has 5th August.

Couldn’t agree more… bought one in 2005 for about £60… completely beat up, but works perfectly.

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My question is why isn't the PG58 more popular? More handling noise, sure, but there's a power switch, and the response curve is flatter. Looks exactly the same as an SM58 too, same company, same quality, but slightly cheaper if I remember correctly. When I first got a studio put together a couple years ago, that was my only mic. I recorded Stairway with it on every instrument and the vocals, and it came out absolutely heavenly. No pun intended.

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