Video Message From Frank Turner – Shure Songwriting Award 2013

How to Enter the Shure Songwriting Award

Don’t miss your chance to win a place on the Institute Songwriting course and get your hands on Shure goodies!

View current entries and submit your song on the Shure Songwriting Award Website. 

We’re expanding our social network for Shure in the UK, and to celebrate – we’re giving you a chance to win one pair of Shure SE215 Earphones. All you have to do is follow us on Twitter. By following us, you can expect up-to-date information on all things Shure, as well as great information on how to get the most from your gear. We look forward to meeting you there!

Shure SE215 Earphones

The SE215′s are the entry level to professional Shure quality earphones, featuring a dynamic microdriver for a warm, detailed sound.

SE215 Giveaway Details

The winner must have a UK address and will be drawn from random on Friday 14th June. Best of luck!

Foll0w Shure UK on Twitter now for your chance to win

Current Series: Mixing Drums with Jay Stapley

The latest addition to the series is a video demonstrating how to effectively apply reverb to drums in the studio. This is the 15th workshop available on the Drum Mastery Website, and is the 6th edition to the Recording Drums with Jay Stepley series.

You can view this video below, or alternatively – the entire Drum Mastery Series to date is available on drum-mastery.eu. 

Coming Soon: Monitoring Engineer, Mark Buckley

Those of you more interested in stage monitoring might enjoy our interview with Tom Jones Monitoring Engineer, Mark Buckley. In the next set of videos Mark talks to Shure about his experiences with Ronan Keating and Tom Jones – with a focus on In-Ear monitoring and mixing. Stay tuned for more information. Or alternatively, keep checking the Drum Mastery website.

SE846 – Expanded View

Earphone aficionados and audiophiles will be delighted to hear the news of Shure’s long awaited new flagship earphones. The new SE846 earphones were recently announced in Japan as the new top of the line Shure model ahead of the SE535 and previous E500 model – both of which are well respected among audio communities such as Head-Fi.org and leading industry publication – What-Hi-FI.

“The Shure SE846 is definitely a doozy–a clear step up, a clear advancement for Shure” - head-fi.org

A new quad-driver design coupled with an innovative low-pass filter enables the low-frequencies to be handled by a true subwoofer design – delivering low end that’s second-to-none.

Customise Your Sound with the SE846

Tonal quality is a very personal thing, and perhaps one of the most appealing innovations in the 846 design, is the ability to customise the high end using interchangeable nozzle filters. The new interchangeable nozzle filter system allows you to choose from three different treble profiles, which include: balanced, warm, and bright. So, if you’re a long term devotee of the SE535 model and have longed to add a bit more sparkle and shimmer to your Shure Earphones – now you can!

Head-Fi News Flash – SE846 Announced

The SE846 Earphones are an audio experience to be savored and we’re delighted with the reaction from respected audio communites so far. Check out this video news flash from Head-Fi.org, which explains the new earphones in detail…

The Shure SE846 Earphones are available from select retailers only and are expected to ship this summer. You can find out more information on Shure.co.uk

Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

This year was the first ‘House The House’ competition, co-organised by Mike Weatherley, the MP for Hove, East Sussex, and the charitable foundation Last Night A DJ Saved My Life. For the past two years, Weatherley has run the ‘Rock The House’ competition, a battle of the bands event for 16-25 year-old musicians in which the winning band gets to play a gig at the terrace bar at the House of Commons. ‘House The House’ is similar, but focuses on dance music and DJ skills amongst entrants in the same age range. Regional heats were held in 10 cities in late 2012 and early 2013, and a finalist was chosen in February during a big night at the Ministry of Sound. As with Rock The House, part of the House The House winner’s prize was to play a set in the Palace of Westminster. On the night, Fat Boy Slim was the support act to the competition winner, young DJ Bryce Fury from Newcastle.

The ULX-D system was supplied to Last Night A DJ Saved My Life by their regular event audio facilities company Project Audio. Jason Bacon of Project Audio explains: “We have been working with Last Night A DJ Saved My Life for a while on some of their events. We used Beta 87C capsules with the ULX-D, which we’ve found to be perfect for events where clarity of speech and vocal diction is important,” continues Bacon. “We get superb results with the ULX-D; it’s like no other radio mic system.

“The ULX-D worked a treat and the event went off very well. We even had a few MPs join in the dancing late into the night — apparently a vote in the chamber went on very late, so a few of them joined in to let off some steam when that was over!”

Following the success of House The House, the event is due to be repeated in 2014 — more details will be made available at www.housethehouse.org later this year. In the meantime – you can find out more information on the Shure ULX-D System at the ULX-D Page of Shure.co.uk.

Shure UK have joined the wonderful world of Twitter. 

At Shure UK we think it’s important to stay in touch with our customers and consumers. Social media is one of the best ways to do this and with our Facebook page now in full swing – the time has come to branch out further.

We’re very much looking forward to joining in with the music and audio community on Twitter community and would like to invite you to come and say hello @shureUK.

See you there!

A Shure 55 Picture Tells a Thousand Words

At Shure UK, we think the best way to demonstrate the 55 models iconic status is through the many forms and functions this legendary design has been incorporated into. So here it is, in no particular order – our top Shure 55 images……

1. Lego 55sh – perhaps the best use of lego ever?

2. 55sh pipe. Admirable craftsmanship.

3. Shure’s Place in history – Since 1925. Did you know, between 1941 – 1945, Shure secured contracts to supply microphones for the United States armed forces in World War II, reinforcing Shure’s reputation as a manufacturer of high-quality, robust products. Strict military standards (MILSPEC) were applied as the quality control system for all Shure microphones, and these standards have been used to test Shure products ever since.

4. Martin Luther King & his dream. Shure help to make history yet again.

5. Custom fitted internal LED. Pretty sharp!

6. The 55sh is commonly referred to as the “Elvis Mic”. Here’s a shot of the man himself.

7. A fully functioning 55 computer, enclosed in a sharp looking 55 model case. You can read more about this one in our previous post – A new use for the shure 55sh – aka the Elvis mic

8. A Shure tattoo – now that’s commitment!

9. 55 Model Keyring

10. The evolution of Shure’s 55 Model – Darwin would be proud.

11. Shure sponsor the Annual MPG (Music Producers Guild Awards), and this is the prize – A 55sh Gold Trophy. Read more about the recent Shure Sponsored MPG Awards in London.  

12. Customised by Mutant Mics - This one has had just a few moderation!

Have you got a cool 55 photo to share with us? Post your reply in the comments box below and we’ll put the best ones our Facebook page.

killers Vocalist Brandon Flowers with his SM58

A Monitor Mix That Sounds Like the Album

Four members of the band are now using the PSM1000 system, and the general impression is that everyone has been playing better since the shift. The band recently switched to the PSM1000 IEM system having used it during a TV show. This has enabled Breunig to feed everyone a mix that sounds like the album, with their own parts a couple of dB above the rest.  The band immediately thought it sounded better than the previous setup and the ability to synchronise each device over a network has provided a welcome simple setup for Breunig.

For more information on Shure monitoring systems and how they can enhance your live performances – visit the Shure IEM Web Page.

Alternatively, you can check out our YouTube video on In-Ear Monitoring Basics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQVY_ZbeQf8

So what exactly is the difference between Shure’s SM58 and the SM57

The 57 and 58 microphones are actually based on the same cartridge design. The main difference is in the grille design. The SM58 was designed for vocal applications, and therefore uses a ball grille with built in pop filter to eliminate plosives. The SM57 is designed as an instrument microphone, where a smaller grille size is more practical and plosives are less of a concern. Subsequently, the SM57 does not use a ball grille with pop filtering and instead uses an integral resonator/grille assembly, where the grille is actually part of the cartridge.

Each grille design places the diaphragm of each microphone in a different acoustical environment. The distance from the top of the grille to the diaphragm is shorter on the SM57 compared to that of the SM58, which allows for a more pronounced proximity effect through closer mic positioning. Additionally, the different resonator/grille assembly design of the SM57 produces a slightly higher output above 5 kHz.

A matter of microphone application

Although the SM57 was intended for instrument applications, there are plenty of examples through history of its use as a vocal microphone. This is because the same increased proximity effect and 5khz frequency boost that help fill out or boost the presence of an instrument recording, can also be used to the engineers advantage with certain vocalists. It’s all a matter of what works for your application. Experimentation and using your ears remains the key factor.

You can view the microphone specs and also hear recorded examples of each microphone on shure.co.uk – SM58, SM57

Shure SE425 Earphones – Fun, Absorbing, Classy, Polished, Captivating - WHAT HI-FI

When reviewing the performance of the SE425′s, WHAT HI-FI went on to describe them as having an astonishing level of detail, which allow you to hear things you never thought were there even on recordings you know inside out.

READ THE COMPLETE WHAT HI-FI REVIEW HERE.

Shure have a range of sound isolating earphones suited to a wide variety of applications. Find out more by watching the video below or alternatively find out which earphones are best for you by visiting our Shure Sound Profiler Website.