Audix OM5 Vs. Shure Beta 58a: It's Take No Prisoners Time
June 18, 2008
It's round three of our Audix vs Shure dynamic shootout, and this time around, we bring out the (relatively) big guns: an OM5 and a Beta 58a. Both mics offer excellent fidelity and impressive gain-before-feedback performance, and both are priced identically by most retailers. This is maybe the closest shootout of the bunch, with even Owen's opinionated ears taking more time in deliberations than usual (i.e., he didn't have a preformed opinion before conducting the shootout).
In the end, a judgment is delivered, and a winner announced, but what do your ears tell you? YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO WATCH.
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Based on what I could hear
Based on what I could hear on the video, sonically I like the Beta 58 better. It seems more natural and seems to have bit more body. The Audix seems a tad brighter, and might be better in a particular room, a particular mix situation, where you need to cut through a little more. The feedback differences could be affected by the slightly different positions of the mics in your test.
Yeah...
...the mics are positioned as similarly as I could get them, what with our lack of calibrating armatures and meters. . . but yeah, admittedly not a controlled environment, here at Gearwire Studios.
But I agree with you about the Beta 58. The Audix is a bit more aggressively voiced. Perfect for screaming into, or cutting through a really dense stage mix, but that's nothing you can't do with the Beta 58 and a halfway decent parametric EQ.
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