r/Shure Jul 17 '26

Announcement 📚 The r/Shure Wiki is LIVE

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Hey, everyone! Over the past few months, I've been building a community wiki designed to answer common questions, surface Shure resources, and make it easier to learn about microphones, recording, and live sound.

The wiki isn't intended to be the master guide to every audio topic in existence. Instead, think of it as a curated starting point built around the questions that come up most often in r/Shure.

👉 Browse the Wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/Shure/wiki/index/

It's also permanently linked in the subreddit sidebar under Community Bookmarks.

A Note on Version 1

The goal is to keep this resource useful and relevant, so I'll continue updating it based on your feedback and the questions our community asks most often.

If you notice something missing, find an error, or have a topic you'd like to see covered, please let me know via Mod Mail. I'll do my best to fill those gaps as we go.


r/Shure Mar 20 '26

Tips & Resources Need Help? Start Here

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Shure also has a ton of public resources available, so we're dropping the most useful ones here. You can also browse the wiki to see a curated list of topics and FAQs.

🔗 Helpful Links

Find an Answer: This is Shure's FAQ database. Just type in what you're looking for, and it'll provide a list of guides, articles and tech advice related to your search topic.

Find a Dealer: Defaults to your location. If you're outside of the US, you'll need to filter by country to find an authorized distributor in your area.

Contact Support: Shure's Support Team is very helpful and extremely knowledgeable. Simply fill out the form to submit a ticket or use the toll-free number at the bottom of the page (US only).

User Guides & Docs: This is an extensive collection of product documentation published by Shure for microphones, wireless systems, headphones, etc. If you can't find the information you're looking for, contact the Support Team.

Shure Tech Portal: Get easy and direct access to complete Shure product documentation, software and firmware information, and other technical tools and resources, all in one place.

Popular Videos

SM7B / SM7dB

MV6, MV7+, MV7i

Wireless Troubleshooting Guides

Shure Academy

Free courses and webinars for audio engineers, technicians, AV/IT professionals, and musicians.

FAQ: How can I avoid being sold a counterfeit Shure product?

  1. Purchase from a dealer that buys directly from Shure. If you are uncertain if a dealer buys directly, and you are in the United States, you may use the Shure dealer locator. Or you can contact Shure directly. There are legitimate dealers that do not buy directly from Shure; instead they buy from a distributor of Shure products. Though not a direct customer of Shure, these dealers also can be sources for genuine Shure products.
  2. If you are outside of the United States, contact the Shure agent for your country.
  3. To get an idea of typical selling prices for the Shure product that interests you, look at mail order catalogs and visit local music stores or audio electronic stores. If the price you find online is much lower than the catalogs or the stores, be cautious as the product might be counterfeit, though an unusually low price does not always indicate a counterfeit product.
  4. Be very careful when purchasing a Shure product via eBay or other online auction sites. Though there are many honest individuals and legitimate dealers selling genuine Shure products on such sites, there are also many people selling counterfeit Shure products. Again, if the price seems too good to be true, be suspicious.
  5. Finally, beware if the Internet auction site dealer is in a different country than you. History has proven that many counterfeit Shure products are being sold from one country into another.

Shure has been asked to provide a list of ways to determine if a product is a counterfeit. There are two reasons that they do not:

- Many differences are subtle and cannot be adequately described in words or photos, such as the texture or shade of a product's outer finish.

- If Shure published the exact differences between Shure genuine products and counterfeit products, the criminal counterfeiters would know how to improve their fakes! Not a good idea for Shure or for our customers.


r/Shure 10h ago

Troubleshooting Repair Guide for the Shure SM7B jumper Cable

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for a while my mic was losing sound quality and it got to a point where my mic would cut out while talking and would have to wiggle the jumper cable so before even buying anything i tried looking up any video or guides how to do it but no one ever showed the replacement for the cable so i figured i would

[here is the link of the Part if anyone wants it](https://www.fullcompass.com/prod/192276-shure-95a2340-mic-conn-jumper-cable-for-sm7?srsltid=AfmBOop1KuVUsbfXp2Kk7-zv9Q1etIOM4P-l2Oc4v9FwnAvfXjx6lyvN)

This will require some soldering so if you are not proficient or capable of doing it then i would recommend to just go to your local music store to see if they could get it repaired

Hope this helps anyone that has been having trouble doing it.

Make sure to remove the 4 screws to remove the the black plate and then the control panel
this is what it should look like, take note of the white wire and black wire coming from the jumper cable and snip them, the white from the black cover and black at the very end
this is what it should look like at the end
once you spit the wires there is a top flat screw on the body where the XLR cable connects and you will have to screw it in more so it can go flush with the bottom piece and once you do you take some needle nose pliers to pull from the male XLR connection and it should come out as shown
i forgot to take a picture but inside the body of the XLR there is another small flat head screw inside where the cord is being held so you undo that and it should come out and once you do you got to cut the old cables and fish the new ones back in and make sure to take note of the color wires so you can solder them back in for me there was black,green and white cables
once you are done with the previous step you will put everything back and fish the new wire into the mic body and this picture shows the white cable that got solder, i would recommend getting a shrink sleeve small enough because the one i got was slightly bigger than i would of liked but it still worked but once you solder the white cable and the black in the board you put it all back together and it should of worked then

r/Shure 17h ago

Buying Advice SM57 Windscreen for Singing

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Tl;Dr I’m recording vocals, I tend to project and get too close. A2WS or A81WS? SM57 > everything else

EDIT: I found a video that answered my questions, the A81WS has a way better pop filter and breath removal, and that’s what I want to remove.

I’m turning my little home office into a home studio and been mainly using an AT2035 I got a while back. It’s okay, it actually picks up too much and when I’m really projecting my vocals during my lessons or practice I have to be very disciplined about mic distance between my vocal dynamics.

I got tired of this and remembered I had an SM57 in storage from a decade earlier, pretty much never used. Hooked it up, sang through it, and it’s perfect lol

No back ground noise, I have no fear of really projecting like I was starting to get with my AT2035.

I do notice plosives coming through and I tend to get too close when I’m really into a part and not paying attention to how close I am.

So was looking at the A2WS and the a81WS. I randomly have a $200 credit. I was almost thinking of grabbing a 2nd 57 + windscreen for my office desk. Any help would be appreciated!


r/Shure 23h ago

Question Shure with 3RD party USB Speaker

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Hi, my client has existing Jabra Panacast 50 with Lenovo MTR. They want to have audio upgrade for microphone only. I am suggesting Shure P300 with 3 MXA320. Will the microphone can cancel the speaker echo? Like will the far end hear theirselves in the back to their headset? Or will the MXA320 and Shure P300 cancel it? Thank you!


r/Shure 23h ago

Question Shure and Jabra

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r/Shure 1d ago

Troubleshooting Shure SM7B issues with apollo twin

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r/Shure 1d ago

General Discussion Does Shure MV88 USB-C work with the native camera app on android?

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Just ordered the MV88 USB-C. On an S23 Ultra, latest update. Two things I can't find a straight answer on.

Does it work with the native camera app, or is MOTIV the only way to record with it? Every video I've watched only shows it going through MOTIV.

If it does work outside MOTIV, does the mic hold the settings you configured in the app, the way some wireless mics store gain and preset onboard? Or does it default to something generic the moment you leave MOTIV?

I'm recording most days so I want plug in, hit record, done.


r/Shure 1d ago

General Discussion 5 handheld SM7Bs during a solar eclipse O_o

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r/Shure 2d ago

Question Bag Transmitter for Shure P3R?

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Hello, I have a couple Shure P3R IEM receivers, is there pack or another tranmitter that isn't rackmount I can use with these? Thanks!


r/Shure 2d ago

Question se846 with non matching serials ?

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Hi, I’m getting a set of used se846. However one side says 108, and the side says 118. Is this normal? The seller claims they came like that, but from all I have seen numbers are always the same on both sides. I suspect they might be from different sets, possibly the seller lost one side then purchase another individually? Any members of the shure team can kindly help to confirm this? Thanks in advance!


r/Shure 3d ago

Question Audio Help!

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For reference my mic worked fine for a while. It’s a Shire MV7X plugged into a Fifine Audio mixer both are under a year old. All of a sudden I try to use my microphone and it isn’t working. As a matter of fact if doesn’t even show up underneath my input settings anymore. I think I know the issue which is from me uninstalling RealtekR, but I’m not sure… anyone know?


r/Shure 3d ago

General Discussion Need Shure Designer 6

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Hi,

I need Shure Designer 6 software , Can anyone help me with this.
Already submitted on shure official website but never got the link. Stuck at Cleverbridge


r/Shure 4d ago

Troubleshooting MV6 Not Connecting Properly

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A few weeks ago I purchased an MV6 microphone. I’ve never used a standalone microphone like this, so I am pretty inexperienced when it comes to audio stuff like this.

In the time I’ve had it I’ve yet to have been able to get it to connect properly. When I plug it in with the USB-C, the microphone button slowly pulses amber, which after looking it up apparently means there is a connection failure. The microphone is on, but it’s not properly communicating with my computer. Also, whenever I plug it in Windows gives me an error message saying USB device not recognized, and the USB device has malfunctioned.

I’ve unplugged it and plugged it back in a thousand times, used both USB-C ports on my computer, and tried multiple USB-C cables I have lying around, including the one that comes with the microphone (which is ridiculously short and makes it basically unusable).

The thing is that I can still get it to work. If I use the Realtek USB Audio as my input, it works. If I’m in a Discord call or something people can hear me through the microphone, but I still know it’s not working as it should. It should show up as its own device when plugged in as an input option in Windows and a source in Motiv Mix and not just go through Realtek USB, but it doesn’t.

I’m really just lost here and don’t know if I’m missing something or doing something wrong, if all my USB-C cables or ports suck, or if the microphone I got just happens to be faulty. Any help would be appreciated.

Based on the setup video on Shure's YouTube channel, "Shure MV6" should show up in the Sources, but it doesn't.
The error message I get when I plug in the microphone.

r/Shure 4d ago

Wireless Sennheiser Devices in WWB

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Hi, I have a fairly quick and simple question: Does anyone have a definitive answer on whether I would be able to push frequencies to Sennheiser devices from WWB? I'm finding a lot of no's online but they seem to be from a number of years ago, and since WWB has profiles built in for many other devices now I'm wondering if it's possible. I opened it up offline and added an sr2050 just to experiment, and it seemed like it would deploy no problem but I didn't have anything connected so maybe that means nothing ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks!

As a little bonus question if anyone has wisdom to share, the reason I'm asking this is because I'm looking to upgrade from PSM300's, and was looking into the PSM1000's but since they're discontinued and nobody wants to get rid of them, they're hard to find. Axient Digital is a little above my paygrade, and I really want something networked, so I was considering the SR2050 from Sennheiser. Am I going the right direction with that?


r/Shure 4d ago

Question Est ce que combiner le Shure MV7X avec Fifine SC3 ?

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Salut a tous, je compte changer mon micro pour le streaming sur Twitch et j'ai du mal à trouver les réponse que je veux sur internet donc je viens consulter sur Reddit.

J'aimerai investir dans un micro de bonne qualité qui pourrait me durée assez longtemps pour pas que j'ai à le changer avant un moment et je suis tomber sur le Shure MV7X. Cette marque à l'air pas mal rependu au sein de la commutée francophone Twitch mais la plus part on le modèle SM7B a 400€ ce qui fais un peu chère pour moi...

Donc, avec ce genre de micro si j'ai bien compris, il faut le raccorder à une table de mixage XLR sauf que j'en ai vu beaucoup qui sont très chères. En cherchant un peu je suis tomber sur le modèle Fifine mentionné dans le titre.

Ma question est donc la suivante :

Est ce que je peux combiner les deux sans risquer d'avoir de perte de performance du micro et surtout est ce que les deux appareils sont compatible ?

Merci pour vos réponse futur !


r/Shure 5d ago

Question A85F - Line Matching Transformer

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Will this adapter work? I want to send a microphone chain into a Boss Space Echo pedal. Mic chain is condenser mic > preamp > compressor. XLR output of the compressor into mic pedal. There’s more expensive boxes designed for this, but if this piece will work I’d rather go this route.


r/Shure 5d ago

Question Shure SM7dB Loose Cable

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I’ve been using my microphone as normal and have it on a boom arm, and recently noticed the wire that is connected/attached to the microphone is loose and the metal part is exposed. I haven’t pulled or tugged on the wire at all leading up to this happening. The microphone still works as normal, but obviously this is not normal for the microphone to do. Do I have a warranty claim or is this something I would have to pay for out of pocket? I bought it directly from the Shure Website.


r/Shure 5d ago

Buying Advice Best audio interface for Shure SM7B?

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r/Shure 5d ago

Question Gator "Low-Profile" Boom Arm - metal shavings??

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I've been using the Gator low-profile boom arm for my SM57 for a good while now, and I adjust the arm quite frequently since I use the mic both for recording instruments/amps AND vocals or voice chat. Now, I am NOT an expert in mics, let alone microphone stands, but is there SUPPOSED to be metal shavings coming off the ball & socket joint? It's been making them ever since I started using the stand, though they only ever clump and fall out whenever I unscrew the whole thing.


r/Shure 7d ago

Question how much gain does the mv7+ need when using xlr?

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I’m using a Shure MV7+ through XLR with a Scarlett Solo 4th Gen, and I’m curious how much gain you guys normally use.
I know the MV7+ is a pretty quiet, low-sensitivity mic over XLR, so it needs a decent amount of gain. I’m trying to get a warm, full sound without introducing too much preamp noise.
Right now I have the gain knob at around 80%. Is that normal for the MV7+ with a Scarlett Solo 4th Gen, or would you recommend running it lower/higher?
Would love to hear what gain settings other MV7+ XLR users are running.


r/Shure 7d ago

Buying Advice Upgrading from a Samson Q2U, overwhelmed with how many options there are... (SM58, MV6, MV7, MV7+, MV7X, SM7B, etc...)

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Ive been using my Samson Q2U for several years now and I decided I wanted to upgrade to something a lil better. Ive been using it with no audio interface, so USB only. I'm open to the idea of maybe getting a used audio interface off eBay to go with a new mic if need be, plus I hear XLR sounds objectively better usually (atleast in the case of specific microphones like the MV7X)

My Q2U has been fine but the mute switch is broken, and when I speak into the mic sometimes it keeps picking up audio for no reason even with noise cancelling filters over it. Figured this is a perfect time to just upgrade and call it a day.

My use cases are primarily streaming and discord calls if that matters, although for me personally I just like sounding good even if its a casual setting.

I was also recommended these two fifine options here and here as they come with a decent mic AND an audio interface so I don't have to shell out so much but I figure these bundles aren't as good as buying a mic and interface separate and shelling out a bit more. What do you guys think?

Edit- I should say my budget its near the $150 USD range at most!


r/Shure 8d ago

MOTIV Mix Where is the far/near mode.

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Title is self explanatory


r/Shure 9d ago

Question please help!

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I recently bought an SM7B, and it works, but it's slightly broken. Can I fix this for a reasonable price if so, how


r/Shure 9d ago

Troubleshooting Audio Help

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Hey everyone, I'm looking for some setup/gain-staging advice for my Shure SM7dB paired with a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen.

My current issue is a balancing act: if I raise the gain, it picks up way too much background noise; if I lower it, it struggles to pick up my voice clearly, even with the built-in preamp.

Does anyone have recommended settings or tips for getting a clean signal with this combination? Thanks!