I recently bought the Nexadyne 8s to replace my Beta 58a. I think the Nexadyne sounds much better and I don’t have as much of an issue with feedback from my vocal monitor. I bought mine in the US for around $240.00 and think it was a great upgrade. I play in a rock band and the Beta 58a picks up too much noise from the drums playing live. Good video.
I can hear a significant improvement in the reproduction of your speaking voice through just my tiny iPad speaker. And I find the difference is even more obvious when singing into the mics. Much like how the difference was more notable when you were recording the saxophone vs your speaking voice. I prefer my Nexadyne over my Beta58. But I’d say the law of diminishing returns applies in regards to price.
I think I would swap to them, if the price was say, 50% more than a Beta 58? That would work for me, but at the moment, they're just not economic, which is a shame.
I'm curious about the authenticity of your Shure Beta 58A microphone. Could you confirm if it's genuine and let me know the year it was manufactured? If I'm not mistaken, the Shure Beta 58 no longer has three holes on the handle. They stopped producing microphones with three holes, though I don't recall exactly when this change occurred. As far as I know, all current Beta 58A microphones have only two holes on the handle.
I’m pretty good a segregating the ones from my hire stock/studio stock so I am assuming it’s genuine but my stock of 57/58 and the beta version is just not tracked I started in 76 with a 57 and 58 and they’re still in there with ones bought last year, so no way of telling age or even source. Used to be studiospare but then usually Thomann in later years.
Being a professional singer, you made me realize that my deep voice would definitely balance out better with the brightness of the Beta. Microphone price tags mean nothing, it’s all about how your voice will ultimately sound through it.
Yes - I can imagine a baritone, let alone a bass would suffer pretty badly from proximity effect - I would say this mic could well be very useful in that context.
The Beta 58a sounds more dynamic and natural to me at an ideal distance, while the NEXADYNE seems to filter out subtle volume changes and artificially boost the 10k range.
my beta 58A looks different, mine are matte grille and slightly different shape on the grille. Also, my beta58a's have much less handling noise. are you sure your beta58a is not a fake?
I took great care with the recent comparison I did with the fake one, and made sure to mark the fake I bought? Have you seen that video, there's a close up of the insides of the one I've had for a while vs the fake? All the Beta 58's I have are circa 2019, or possibly 18? I'd be interested in seeing yours? that could be useful? I think mine came from Thomann - but 4/5 yrs is stretching the memory.
I recently bought the Nexadyne 8s to replace my Beta 58a. I think the Nexadyne sounds much better and I don’t have as much of an issue with feedback from my vocal monitor. I bought mine in the US for around $240.00 and think it was a great upgrade. I play in a rock band and the Beta 58a picks up too much noise from the drums playing live. Good video.
I really think they’re nice but the price point will lower the popularity. I would need to buy at least three more and that’s too much really
I can hear a significant improvement in the reproduction of your speaking voice through just my tiny iPad speaker. And I find the difference is even more obvious when singing into the mics. Much like how the difference was more notable when you were recording the saxophone vs your speaking voice.
I prefer my Nexadyne over my Beta58. But I’d say the law of diminishing returns applies in regards to price.
I think I would swap to them, if the price was say, 50% more than a Beta 58? That would work for me, but at the moment, they're just not economic, which is a shame.
I'm curious about the authenticity of your Shure Beta 58A microphone. Could you confirm if it's genuine and let me know the year it was manufactured?
If I'm not mistaken, the Shure Beta 58 no longer has three holes on the handle. They stopped producing microphones with three holes, though I don't recall exactly when this change occurred. As far as I know, all current Beta 58A microphones have only two holes on the handle.
I’m pretty good a segregating the ones from my hire stock/studio stock so I am assuming it’s genuine but my stock of 57/58 and the beta version is just not tracked I started in 76 with a 57 and 58 and they’re still in there with ones bought last year, so no way of telling age or even source. Used to be studiospare but then usually Thomann in later years.
Being a professional singer, you made me realize that my deep voice would definitely balance out better with the brightness of the Beta. Microphone price tags mean nothing, it’s all about how your voice will ultimately sound through it.
Yes - I can imagine a baritone, let alone a bass would suffer pretty badly from proximity effect - I would say this mic could well be very useful in that context.
The Beta 58a sounds more dynamic and natural to me at an ideal distance, while the NEXADYNE seems to filter out subtle volume changes and artificially boost the 10k range.
my beta 58A looks different, mine are matte grille and slightly different shape on the grille. Also, my beta58a's have much less handling noise. are you sure your beta58a is not a fake?
I took great care with the recent comparison I did with the fake one, and made sure to mark the fake I bought? Have you seen that video, there's a close up of the insides of the one I've had for a while vs the fake? All the Beta 58's I have are circa 2019, or possibly 18? I'd be interested in seeing yours? that could be useful? I think mine came from Thomann - but 4/5 yrs is stretching the memory.