Yeah, listening to your comparison, not even really good noise suppression and digitally boosting the output is going to fix that. For an SM58 it'll probably work, but a studio dynamic? No chance. Especially when most interfaces have trouble driving it and require Fetheads and Cloudlifters that will not work with XLR to USB cables.
I could never justify anyone who wants to spend premium money just to be cheap on the crucial components. THEY should have never mentioned shure sm7b if they’re trying to go with a cheaper alternative. The mv7 should have been the go to if they’re trying to pull that off. Atleast the mv7 has the best of both worlds.
The comparisons between the two, the 2nd being that HISS, is what drove me insane! I now know why! THANK YOU! I used a XLR to USB (on a budget), after this, no more!
okay sorry if i'm being dumb here, but i wanna know. If i get a mic booster (i have one in mind thats cheap and i've seen alot of comparisons to the cloudlifter on YT for) and one of those xlr to usb cables like without the preamp feature thing or something, will it work/ be alright to use?? again sorry if this is a dumb question Edit: oh and also this isn't for an SM7B, it's for a cheaper dynamic mic - if i had the money for an SM7B then I'd buy a good interface or something XD
I have the Shure SM7B but never opened it because now I'm pivoting to just using a direct USB microphone from Rode (VideoMic Go II), which has a USB-C connector and only costs around $100. It's great. I do hope someday Shure releases a new microphone that is USB-C only (no XLR) and is intended for people hooking directly up to a computer/phone for recording. I love Shure, but I don't want to deal with pre-amps etc.
@@DarkCornerStudios I don't think you will regret it. It's pretty neat. That's currently what I have. Some people have had issues with the cable that is included but so far I haven't had any issues with it. Also heads up people say it's heavy, personally owning it, it is definitely heavy and it's hard to get a boom arm that can hold it lol
Yeah that's a piece of bad word. In fact it's a worse bad word piece of bad word. I'm waiting patiently for the hn5 review, trying not buy a replacement strat body instead. That cable made me nauseous. 😁😁😁👍❤
@@DarkCornerStudios Well an actual Fender body os hundreds to possibly thousands, so no! It'll be a UK made body to US specs. This is an on going project.. 🎸🎶👍
As soon as you said someone suggested phantom power with a dynamic mic I though "wouldn't that ruin the mic?" And immediately after thinking that I got the urge to watch someone do it. To their mics of course, not mine.
Fortunately not, no dynamic mic manufactured in the last few decades has an issue with Phantom power as far as I know. They simply ignore it. Ribbon mics are another topic, those you can destroy, even more recently developed ones, although many (well, comparably many, there aren't many Ribbon mics out there nowadays) already feature either a protection now or have an built-in inline preamp to use the Phantom power to generate more gain.
XLR to USB is supposed to be a replacement to the interface, not the cable. In theory, you plug the cable from the XLR port to the USB port on your computer, and for $15 you can use an XLR dynamic on your PC. In theory. I haven't tried it myself though, but I don't have a reason to either except for maybe a little curiosity.
@@DarkCornerStudios It sounds as bad as an XLR to 1/4" ran through a 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter and plugged straight into the PC. Actually, I am curious how that'd compare to the XLR to USB.
@@ulfrinn8783 I know how it works, I already tested it, the quality is horrible, a dynamic microphone always needs phantom power to have quality, if you want quality sound use XLR with an interface, like the RODE Procaster mic with the RODE AI-1, or a USB condenser microphone like the RODE NT-USB, I have both, the SHURE SM7B is an excellent microphone, but currently it doesn’t justify the cost
A D -> Analogue to Digital 😜 also the USB mic wouldn’t have a D A in it unless it had an on-board output of some kind. Either way... at this point in the evolution of technology, USB to XLR (or vice versa) is noooooooot goooooood. Save up... get the real deal instead. It’ll serve you a lot better
@@DarkCornerStudios it’s true... though there are a few that are straight up “output only”. That one wasn’t so much of a correction as an additional observation. I love my random unsolicited technical addendums 😂
