WANTED - looking for a used shure sm7b

If no one here bites, you can keep a watch on Reverb, but catching one under $300 is going to be a miracle. You can set up a personal feed that emails you daily listings for certain items, as well, so you'll know if one's posted.

I think I paid a full $300 for mine new.... its just what they cost. Consider an RE20, very similar EV mic, also awesome at vocals, kick, etc. Sometimes can be had cheaper than an sm7b

what, I'm pretty dumb?okay, man.... I usually try tog et everything spit cheap but an sm7 was not happening for less than retail unelss there was something wrong with it so many years I bit the bullet. To Shure's credit the sm7 has been about 299 retail for like 20+ years. And the at4040 is a great mic. The 40 series is highly udnerrated. But serisously, what are you looking to do with the sm7 that you need a cloud lifter? One of the thigns I love about the big broadcasts dynamics like the sm7, re20 and that giant Heil is how they take HUGE SPL and smooth spikey percussion and guitar transients aor team screamed vocals. I've enver eneded mroe than the console/interface gain assuming there's not some screwy input impedance. But I only use large dynamic mics for what they're good at, namely lud sources with hard transients. Is that dumb?

okay, the sm7 musically is good for male hip hop vocals that are LOUD, not snoop but like DMX or from my generation Chuck D. Its good at screaming rock vocals. Its good at an even, vintage kick drum or part of a multi mic kick setup. Its not too shabby at snare. Its great at guitar cabinets with multiple speakers. It loves baritone sax players with huge dynamics....

BLUE mics. I've owned many. My favorites were the bottle and baby bottle, I also liked the dragnonfly a lot. All of them are excellent. They have very wide range capules and the electronics handle really low transients well in general. They have a thick FET sound on the lows that saturates pelasantly if your preamp has the headrooom. Through somthing colored like an API premp you get weird low end bumps on material with rich low frequency content. For most of what i do I prefer audio technica in condensers as they sit back ebtter and have more'air' but the BLUE mics are like a german capsule on crack and pull whatever you record with them forward without getting bright. midrange and low end presence, like a U67 but not tubey and no body resonances....not like a 47, ,49, c12, 251 87 etc, most like a 67, but with none of the midrange body resonance and a solid state crisp athority? I dunno, its ahrd to describe microphones, but the blue mics have a lot in common. I don't love them for sot vocalists, but for bass, celloe, softer horns, clarinet.... whew. when I sued to record a lot of jazz I used a number of BLUE mics all the time. Also, the bottle, which istube, has a different vibe and is a vocal mic, like a more open U67. Not for everyone. but the solid state ones, all similar. EXCELLENT

I don't think there's an upgrade from an at4040, its an excellent mic.... there's just other flavors.I own a 4040 and a 4047... for non vocal applications a multipatttern 40 series is an upgrade.

don't get rid of the 4040

so reckon the sm7 would be a good upgrade?, another thing im looking to record male rap vocals, like uk drill vocals ect, would i still be good with the sm7?

I would actually align the diaphragm on the 4040 and sm7 and sue both for male rap vocals and ride the faders in mix down between themdepending on how ahrdcore te vocalist is going. (I've done a lot of hip hop sessions). when he goes soft, more 4040, you get it.

no, but their preamps aren't too shabby