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!

Software is great if you want to add eq, compression or reverb. It is plugged into to my usb hub. It has a single-direction mode and an omni-directional mode.

You know what eff that. Nope its this pos. Now that that has been fixed, i keep getting a message that says oh no! This thing is buggy.

It's clear that blue is selling refurbished items as new now. Also the sellers refund policy blows!

The usb port on the mic is underneath, so the cable is pushed at an odd angle to snake out through the back. The provided usb cable often lacks enough power to transmit audio through. The problem is that audio is heavily flawed when directly plugged i...  Read More

Headphone volume adjustment is now useless. Instead, the knob now adjusts the windows software volume. The gain is ridiculously high and even barely speaking gets distorted.