Shure microphones can be found in studios the world over. For premium studio microphones look no further than the KSM range, which were designed with…

For mixing and mastering it is most common to use loudspeakers. But with increasing mobility, headphones become more and more relevant. Open- or clos…

Most studios use loudspeakers for monitoring, but headphones can be useful supplementary tools that reveal additional sonic detail. Closed- or open-b…

Shure offers great products for home recording whatever your budget. No matter if you are a producer of music in your bedroom, a podcaster, or a home…

Having recently won a prestigious MPG Award, Andrew Hunt is riding a wave of success built from the ground up.

German Record Producer Teams Up With Shure To Record Street Musicians Throughout The EU

As an audio engineer, frequently turning your head to a wide variety of musical genres and productions comes with the territory.

Loyal users know that this rugged and reliable mic sounds great. But many may not know some of the fascinating history and technical facts about it.

It's not everyday you get to interview someone at the absolute top of his game.

Welcome to the final part in our series. To finish our drum recording tuition, Jay walks trough the process of bringing an entire kit together.

Welcome back. Today we're going to look at one of the most important factors in bringing a drum kit recording together. In any recording where multip…

Welcome to part 4. Compression is the most misunderstood, but also incredibly powerful tools at our disposal. Once again, we're joined by engineer Ja…

Welcome to part 3. By this point in the game, you've finished recording your drums, and you're well on the way to creating a polished mix.

In part 1 of our recording drums series, we looked at how to set up and mic your drums. For part 2, we're moving to the mix.

The electric guitar is the most successful and widely adopted instrument in modern popular music. In fact, a recent study shows that the electric gui…

A full drum kit can be one the most difficult instruments to record successfully. It requires a great deal of patience and a skilful drummer to achie…

The human voice is extremely complex. Man made instruments, such as the piano, flute or even the guitar, can be emulated through sampling and synthes…

Recording vocals in a room with less than ideal acoustics can be tricky. If any undesirable sounding room reflections make it back into your micropho…

You'd be hard-pressed to find a band that hasn't used the celebrated SM57 at least somewhere in their career.

Welcome to part 2 of our 10 recording tips for electric guitar players. In part one we looked at our first 5 tips to get you on the road to success.

Recording your own music can seem daunting as there are many different ways to go about it and the technology can feel like a big learning curve.

To kick start a new blog series featuring unconventional studio techniques, we recently put an SM57 in a bucket of water and placed it next to the ki…

At Shure UK we recently read a Sound on Sound article about John Newman & Ant Whiting utilising some unusual recording techniques to produce Newman's…

Getting a great kick drum sound can be difficult, and how you choose to mic and mix your drums depends on the genre of music. For popular music style…

Songwriting is somewhat of a dark art. Every successful songwriter will continually work to hone their craft, develop new tricks, and look at their p…

When it comes to micing a snare drum, the SM57 has pretty much dominated for the best part of 50 years. The SM57 adds just the right amount of low-en…

Phantom power, sounds funny, doesn't it? If you're new to home recording, this term can be confusing.

Microphones come in a variety of shapes that determine their ideal field of application.

Are you confused by line level versus mic level? Well, you’re not alone. We’re often asked to explain the difference. Simply stated, these both refer…

View the role of each component in delivering the SM58’s reliable sound quality and combat-ready ruggedness.

Select Shure MOTIV™, earphone, and headphone products qualify for Apple MFi certification and are certified to work with qualifying Apple iPods, iPad…

Shure MOTIV™ products pair seamlessly with Report-IT from Tieline®. Report-IT offers the ability to turn any compatible iOS device into an ultraporta…

The polar pattern of a microphone is the sensitivity to sound relative to the direction or angle from which the sound arrives, or easier worded how w…

The transducer is the heart of the microphone. It converts sound into an electricalsignal. The two most common transducer types are Dynamic and Conde…

The frequency response is the output level or sensitivity of a microphone over its operating range from lowest to highest frequencies.

Application, environment and sound. This article shows you how to use these criteria to find the best microphone for you.