The mic has a cardioid pickup pattern, meaning the main source of audio that you’ll hear is directly in-front of the mic. It works nicely on adobe audition and anchor. The mute/unmute button is also a plus for zoom meetings.

Off axis sound rejection is great. It picks up well and audio is clear and undistorted. It is very sensitive and it will pick up all audio directly in front and even to the side of the microphone.

The mic has an all metal body and shock mount with a slip on foam windscreen. Mounts well to any standard stand or desk mounted boom arm. Foam windshield does a decent job with plosives but i’d still advise talking somewhat across the mic.

Construction is very-sturdy and appears to be all-metal. This thing feels solid and exudes a sense of quality. The quality is right up there with my mv shure7 mv.

The built in converter is fantastic and on a mac is plug and play. Comes with a usb cable and also has a converter that allows you to plug it into an iphone. It comes with a y adapter so you canplug it into your phone/pad and still plug something else...  Read More

It is durable, and has superb sound. It has superb off-axis rejection. It's very effective in combating howl round or feedback.

It's a cardioid dynamic mic so if you aren't in a supremely sound proofed environment, say a bedroom you've done no sound dampening to, this is fantastic. Great mic. All around best sounding mic.

Sm stands for studio microphone. Don't get me wrong it excels at. The sure sm58 always performs well. For an all-purpose mic, the sm58 is hard to beat.

Great for live or karaoke. I recommend every home musician have one of these. Snap on the drums.

Shure sm57/sm58 is the most overrated mic ever made. They feedback all too easily for a working band (high end feedback issues) the sound quality is not good as what other brands with the same price.

Like the mcdonald's burger, billions of these mics have been sold. All of this is unauthorized and unknown, by shure headquarters. It isn't original!