Shure SM7B

amazing microphone. classic. You buy it and use it for the rest of your life without any problems. Sturdy one-piece construction. the order came very quickly. Thanks a lot. enjoying it

I recently added the Shure SM7B to my audio setup, and I couldn't be more happy with the quality and clarity it brings to my recordings.

[Sorry for writing in in English, I'm a Ukrainian war refugee and my Lithuanian is very poor atm]
Since the start of the war, I've become a full-time streamer because both of my degrees aren't suitable for international work, so I had to turn my hobby into a job. I'd been using a 'gamer' USB Plug-n-play mic for years but I figured out I need an upgrade, a forever one, if you will. I had my eyes on the most obvious choice: Shure SM7B, since it's used by almost everyone in livestreaming circles. And NGL I wanted to get it from the official European Shure retailer store, even if the price for the mic and the arm was INSANE. And miraculously something went wrong on that website and it didn't take my order. I started looking up the Lithuanian websites recommended by that store, and found Soundium.

Lemme tell you that I've got 0 clue on what I needed. I thought that the mic itself is also kinda plug-n-play and BOY I WAS WRONG! This thing requires a ton of additional stuff, like a cloudlifter and a soundboard, not even talking about additional cords. How do I know that now? Because I wrote to WONDERFUL (seriously, thank you so much, magical people behind it!) support of the website, and they were super kind to explain to me what I needed to get additionally, correcting my assumptions and helping me to make the right choice.

Also I must say that the whole kit of the mic, 2 cords, much sturdier boom arm, a cloudlifter and a soundboard were technically (excluding the taxes) 30 euros more than the mic and the boom arm on the website of that official retailer. CAN YOU IMAGINE THE SCALE OF THE MISTAKE THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED?! OF course, if you add taxes on top, the difference is more than that, but anyway, it is insane!!

So now I'm writing this review after I've finished the set up of my streaming service and I've checked the sound on the recording. It sounds heavenly (excluding my voice, my voice is utterly horrible but no mic can change that) and I can finally stop worrying about my sound on the stream.

Thank you, Soundium!!

Very good microphone; big low-end which can be cut if it's too overwhelming, and similarly a presence boost can engaged to get the tonality you want. Very gain hungry and you need to decide if your pre-amp can handle it. Requires high-gain, low noise-floor for best performance; I have no need for a line-booster with my Komplete Audio 2, but I do run it at max gain.
Anybody who knows anything about this microphone knows to utilise the proximity effect to get the most out of it. Worth the investment; if you prefer a more bright microphone, the EV RE20 RE is a very solid choice.