Outstanding Tips About How To Spot A Fake Shure Microphone
He sm58 is known as the world’s most popular performance microphone.
How to spot a fake shure microphone. Shure makes a replacement part called the r57. Ok how to know a beta 58 fake from the real deal. I made the mistake of buying a shure sm58 off.
I made the mistake of buying a shure sm58 off ebay, and got a fake one. The threading on the microphone housing where the windscreen is screwed on should be shiny silver, not dull black in color. The foamy bit on top of the fake mic is black while on the real one it’s grey.
Most the fakes will not have the dc stamp on them in the center of the top of the element or any stamp and they are in white. In this video we will look at how to replace a trashed diaphragm and voice coil on a shure sm57 microphone. On the genuine shure stickers the paper on the underside is black, whereas on the fakes it is white and can also be seen as a thin white border on the front of the sticker.
Learn how to spot a forgery of a shure beta58 microphone. If the box includes a cable but isn't. There are lots of mics being copied in china and the mic manufacturers from around the world spend.
Many counterfeit shure microphones come with a cable in the box; Thats the only way to be 100% certain. Due to the poor quality of the mic, you would find that fake sm weighs less than the original one.
If you buy it from a shure dealer (as listed on their site probably), you get a shure mic. Then if it turns out to be fake anyway, shure is on. Checking the mic weight of the mic.