Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Beta 52a

Today I'll be reviewing the Shure Beta 52a

The Shure Beta 52a is large diaphragm dynamic microphone designed specially for kick drums, bass cabs, and other low-frequency intensive sources. The frequency range on this microphone is awesome! It picks up the really lows, but can also pick up highs for overtones in your sound. Whenever I use this on my kick drums it gives it a nice punch, but my bass drum is also naturally punchy being a smaller size.

This microphone can also make a killer vocal microphone since it's responding frequencies are broad, and it's a dynamic microphone so it won't pick up TOO much and can be used for live sound

The only drawback that I've noticed is that sometimes the frequencies are too broad, and you have to rolloff the ending frequencies to make it sound cleaner and usuable

 The Shure Beta 52a can be picked up for a little over $150 USD, and can also come in a sweet mic package that comes with this and 3 SM57s, which I'll get to another day
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14 comments:

  1. Team PandaMarch 29, 2011 at 10:34 PM

    i wish i had one of these for my kick drum, it would make my kit a lot more fun

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  2. AdminMarch 29, 2011 at 10:49 PM

    I need to record some stuff, actually, and this seems pretty good. Too bad about broad frequencies though.

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  3. HutchMarch 29, 2011 at 10:59 PM

    The broad range can be fixed by rolling off the eq at the really low frequincies and sometimes the high

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  4. Eric PMarch 29, 2011 at 11:16 PM

    Those are awesome. I remember the drummer in my band from high school had the worst kick drum mic. I could never hear anything!

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  5. OscarMarch 30, 2011 at 3:00 AM

    Looks great, all I need is a kick drum.

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  6. IntramanMarch 30, 2011 at 4:09 AM

    Thanks for this. Pretty interesting review

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  7. SlamcakesMarch 30, 2011 at 9:56 AM

    I like the design of it, looks kinda retro almost.

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  8. MikeRoMarch 30, 2011 at 10:03 AM

    I'll have to show this to my friend. It looks pretty cool.

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  9. psykeMarch 30, 2011 at 10:22 AM

    Seems a bit pricy for me. Hope it's worth the money.

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  10. Megan HansenMarch 30, 2011 at 11:03 AM

    that's expensive, but i may invest in one to improve my sound quality

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  11. UnknownMarch 30, 2011 at 11:07 AM

    Looks röy cool, to bad i cant drumm xD

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  12. Stewart AMarch 30, 2011 at 11:09 AM

    Every musician needs a shure or two, indestructable mics!

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  13. Wayward DispositionMarch 30, 2011 at 11:20 AM

    I need to save up for a good mic. Man, fuck being poor.

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  14. doomsdayMarch 31, 2011 at 10:08 AM

    I'm too poor to buy one of these :-(

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