well hello there earthlings greetings and what is up today i am back with a review of another brand
new podcasting microphone from sure the microphone being the mv7x x standing for xlr because this is
an xlr only version of the shure mv7 which i reviewed last year i believe this microphone
will cost around 179 dollars i will throw some links down below if i can find them also in the
sake of full disclosure i do need to let you know that sure sent me this microphone free of charge
for the sake of making this review and for this review i have the microphone connected directly
to the focusrite 18i 22nd gen i'm recording 24 bit 48 kilohertz my gain is set at around four o'clock
and i will not do any kind of post-processing but i might have to boost it a little bit in post
so check the doobly-doo to see what i didly did and now let's talk about what comes in the box
what a shocker you are going to get the microphone it comes with a foam windscreen already installed
it also has this already installed mount as well as a 5 8 to 3 8 inch microphone stand adapter and
you'll get a little bit of documentation then as far as the build quality i really don't have any
complaints about it it has an all metal body as well as a metal grille if you take off the
foam windscreen you do have these really nice metal screws to tighten down the mounting system
on the note of the mounting system that is all metal as well as we move around the microphone
there are no buttons or switches which is quite different from the mv7 because you do not have
this led panel on the rear you do only have an xlr port which again is different from the mv7
and if it matters to you this microphone is made in china then as far as these specs i actually
don't have any of that information but the capsule and the mv7x is identical to the capsule in the
mv7 so i pulled a couple pieces of information and i believe it does match the mv7x it's no surprise
this microphone does have a cardioid polar pattern i believe it also has a frequency response of 50
hertz to 16 kilohertz and it has a sensitivity of around negative 55 db now i'm moving around the
mv7x to 90 degrees so you can hear the off axis rejection and coloration we'll continue around
the microphone to 180 degrees here's what the rear sounds like continuing around the microphone
to the second 90 degree angle there we go and then we will rotate and end the front of the microphone
now let's go ahead and see how well this microphone does at rejecting plosives
please bring pizza pronto please bring pizza pronto please bring pizza pronto now i'm right
on top of the microphone to demonstrate the proximity effect on this thing now i'm about
three inches away from the microphone with it pointed at the corner of my mouth and here's
how it sounds now we're about one foot away from the microphone now we're about two feet away from
the microphone and now we're about four feet away from the shure mv7x now i'm typing on a keyboard
with gatoron blue switches to see how much of my voice versus how much of the keyboard it picks up
and for those who use them now i am just typing on the sad w keys
here is how the microphone sounds in a well-treated room
here is where the microphone is and here is how the microphone
sounds in a completely untreated room
next because the microphone comes on this built-in mounting system we do need to see
how effective that is at rejecting shocks so i will go ahead and start by tapping on
my desk to see how much of that noise it can reject and then i will tap on the boom arm
now i'm going to go ahead and tap on the body of the microphone to
see if there are any kind of resonant frequencies
and lastly a very common thing you see on the shure sm7b is people removing the foam windscreen
because the windscreen dampens the high end a bit so let's go ahead and see how the mv7x performs
without the windscreen to see if that brightens up the top end at all in case that wasn't enough here
is a quick sample speaking into the 7x with the windscreen installed and now i have removed the
foam windscreen and here's how the mv7x sounds it doesn't look as good but it does brighten up
the top end quite a bit and now we're going to do a very quick spoken word comparison between
the shure mv7x and a bunch of other microphones that are available so we can see how this stacks
up against the competition like always we'll start on the mic that we're reviewing this is the mv7x
three inches off gain at four o'clock and here's how it sounds first up we're on the shure pga
58 this is a 54 handheld dynamic microphone and here's how it sounds let's jump back to the mv7x
back on the mv7x here's how it sounds let's jump to another mic and do some more comparisons now we
are on a very popular xlr and usb dynamic mic this is the samson q2u seventy dollars using it in the
xlr mode three inches off gain at four o'clock check the lower third and let's jump back to
the sure another very quick sample just to cleanse your palate this is the mv7x let's jump to another
microphone now we're on the new audio technica at2040 this is a 100 broadcast dynamic mic
three inches off gain at four o'clock let's jump back to the 7x for the fourth time i think we
are back on the shure mv7x nothing has changed let's jump to the next microphone now we're on
the road pod mic another 100 broadcast dynamic microphone three inches off gain still at four
o'clock and here's how it sounds let's jump back to the shure and do more tests here we
go sure mv7x just so you can hear how this sounds in between every microphone let's jump to another
one now we're on the audio technica atr 2100 x-usb a new 100 xlr and usb dynamic mic three inches off
gain at four o'clock xlr mode and let's jump back to the sure sure mv7x again nothing has changed
check the lower third to see how much i boosted it and let's go to another one next we are on
the se electronics sev7 a 100 xlr handheld dynamic microphone three inches off gain at four o'clock
and here is how this sounds compared to the shure mv7x let's jump back and do more comparisons
back again on the mv7x three inches off gain at four o'clock nothing has changed next microphone
now we are on the shure sm58 one of the most popular microphones of all time one hundred
dollars three inches off gain at four o'clock and here is how this sounds everybody knows that
everybody loves it or hates it everybody's got a thought on it let's jump back to the other shirt
the one we're reviewing and do more i bet you wouldn't have thunk it but we are back on the mv7x
again here's how it sounds let's go to another microphone and do more of these now we are on the
mxl bcd one another broadcast dynamic microphone this costs 150 dollars i am three inches off my
gain is at four o'clock check the lower third because i will not have to boost this as much
and there you go bcd one versus mv7x let's go to another one back on the mic that we're reviewing
here's how it sounds get a good feel for it and let's go to the next one now we are on the samson
q9u i am an xlr mode and i have the mid boost engaged three inches off gain at four o'clock
this costs two hundred dollars and this is an xlr and usb mic there you go samson q9u vs mv7x let's
jump back to the sure during these comparisons i swear my mind does not slip away from me at all
back on the mv7x let's go to another one now we are on the rode pro caster a 230 dollar xlr
broadcast dynamic microphone three inches off gain at four o'clock check the lower third
to see how much i boosted it and there you go rode procaster versus sure mv7x next microphone
i don't know how many of these we have done i think we're coming up on the end is this the 11th
mv7x back to the next one now we are on the shure mv7 i am using this in xlr mode i am three inches
off gain at four o'clock and here's how it sounds do you hear a dramatic difference between the mv7x
and the mv7 they do have the exact same capsule in it and i was told the only difference is the usb
controls and all that in there so let me know in the comments down below is there a difference and
which one do you like better let's go back and do more comparisons i believe we have a couple
more to go but this is the mv7x just so you can hear it and let's go to the next one now i am on
the shure sm7b i do not have the presence boost or low cut engaged i'm about three inches off of this
my gain is still at four o'clock check the lower third and there you go here is how the sm7b sounds
like compared to the mv7x the microphone that was inspired by the sm7b let's do more comparisons
i believe we have two more to go this is the mv7x nothing has changed let's go to the second to last
microphone now we are on the electro voice re20 i am three inches off my gain is at four o'clock and
here's how it sounds 450 versus 180 dollars there you go let's do one more comparison and finally
we have made it let me know in the comments if you can guess what this last microphone is going to be
let's jump to this last microphone and lastly we are on the neumann u87ai three inches away gain
at 11 o'clock cardioid mode notepad no filter and this costs 3 600 just for consistency sake there
we go neumann u87ai 3600. versus the shure mv7x 180 which one do you like better let me know in
the comments down below which of these microphones was your favorite and let's jump to the music test
do
because i've got a thousand mics i must have a great life well let me tell you now
yeah i guess that's right
now if it's not abundantly clear that's what we call a joke the amount of microphones that an
individual possesses has absolutely zero bearing on their quality of life i just want to make i
want to i need to make that abundantly clear so let's go to the conclusion i was kidding okay i
actually think the xlr output on the mv7x is an improvement over the xlr output on the mv7 which
is more expensive but let's start with the pros and first up the background noise rejection on
this thing is pretty respectable and if it matters to you it is that broadcasty look and it will look
a little bit better in video but then as far as cons i don't think the mic did a very good job at
plosive rejection so i would recommend picking up a pop filter or getting very good with your
mic technique to avoid putting a plosive right into the mic and also just like the mv7 it still
has that issue of being very microphonic where it just picks up all kinds of shocks and isn't able
to reject them then as far as my overall thoughts and opinions of this microphone on the electric
guitar it's not a guitar mic but i do think it is workable you are going to be getting a more
mid-forward sound the bass is very clean sounding but because of that it doesn't have much oomph it
doesn't have much weight to it and then the top end isn't overly clear so you don't get much
bite there but a benefit there is it doesn't get overly piercing or sharp next up on the acoustic
guitar i think it's tolerable but it really isn't anything that i would pick it simply doesn't have
that top end that liveliness that i really look for on a mic that i'm going to use on the acoustic
and again it does give you that very mid-forward sound next up for singing i found that we got a
little bit more of that mid-forward rounded sound quality to it which i tend to like for singing so
i think it's workable i think there are much better singing microphones out there especially
at this price but if you're in a pinch and you have it for a podcast i think it would work fine
for that and lastly for spoken word that's where i think this mic performed the best the low end was
really nice because it wasn't muddy but they also didn't overly cut it so it didn't sound anemic
it didn't sound empty or hollow you still had this really nice low end to support your voice then the
mids were quite impressive to me because they sounded pretty natural especially compared to a
lot of the other dynamics until we started to get to the more upper end dynamics but as far as more
affordable dynamics i think the mids on this were really impressive and pretty natural and also i
found myself liking the top end for spoken word because unlike a lot of dynamics it's not over
boosted in the top so it doesn't sound overly artificial but they also don't roll it off so
you still have all of that information and to wrap up would i recommend the shure mv7x it's a
maybe from me but first i want to say something i have no idea what happened from the shure
mv7 to the mv7x but in my review of the mv7 which is the xlr and usb mic i criticized the xlr output
for being pretty poor i was not impressed by it the mv7x the xlr output on this is an improvement
by tenfold it sounds so much better than the mv7s xlr output so that is a huge pro but as far as who
i would recommend it for if you are looking for a broadcasty looking dynamic microphone
and your budget ends at 200 dollars i think this is one of the better sounding options sub 200
if you're looking for that broadcasty look but the reason i'm only saying i would maybe recommend it
is if you don't care what your microphone looks like sub 180 dollars i think there are some
incredible sounding options out there that are available they just may not look as cool on camera
so if you don't care what the on-camera mic looks like or maybe you don't have a camera then i think
you could get a better option also if you really like the sound of this microphone i found the
pga 58 to be quite similar and sound not exactly the same but very similar in sound for 50 bucks
so if you don't care what the mic looks like and you love the sound of this pga 58 54 and i think
you're off to the races but if you're looking for a broadcasting mic and your budget ends at
200 bucks i think it's a really nice offering all right that's going to wrap up for today like i
always say let me know in the comments down below what did you think of this microphone and also
which of the mics that i compared it against did you like the best if you found this video
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