suharsh

I am looking for buying a microphone for singing and looking for suggestions. The budget is around $75 - $125. Also what to look for in a microphone?

I am not even sure if there are 'musical' microphones vs. 'pa' microphones?!

Thanks in advance,

Suharsh

palebluedot

You want a Shure SM58, best mic for your price range. It is an industry workhorse and I have never met a sound guy/band that didn't have at least a couple of them in their gear.

It's an excellent mic for vocals as well as instrument. In a vocal mic you want to look for a midrange frequency response(around 45/50Hz to 15K/20Hz).

$99 from Musicians Friend and you might be able to find it a little cheaper. Check it out here

audrey

Echo palebluedot's recommendation on the SM58. Regarding instrument miking, the SM58 is ok, but most people prefer the SM57 (in that family of mic's).

edclem

both the SM57 and SM58 are great mics.

for vocals, i'd go with the SM58

I always used SM57's to mic my drum kit when I was playing actively (except the bass drums, for which I used the AKG D117)

audrey

yeah, the D117 rocks; i use that same mike on my kick and it's fabulous!

suharsh

Thanks a lot to all. I ended up buying the SM58S from Musiciansfriend.com. However I learnt two things while looking for the microphone - the one for ~$99 was without the on off switch, also it didn't come with cable. The one with the on/off switch was for $139.99. I price matched it with etronics.com where it was for 109.99.

I am looking forward to it. Thanks again.