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Just like guitars or amplifiers, microphones have their own unique personalities. Some sound warm and colorful while others cut through the mix with plenty of "up-front" presence. All of these sonic qualities are important and useful, but to collect them all you need to spend a small fortune.

Six mics have emerged as universal favorites for live vocal applications, but only one puts them all in the palm of your hand at the same time. XD-V70 features models based on* the six top live vocal mics and delivers them inside an advanced, interference-free digital wireless system.

Take a look at the six mics modeled for the XDV-70.

Show up at any gig the world over, and there’s one piece of gear you are likely to find more than any other: a sturdy, reliable, great-sounding Shure SM58 vocal microphone.

Introduced back in 1966, the SM58 has since reached legendary status as the world’s most popular live vocal mic. This is partly because of its ability to take a beating night after night without complaint but also because it sounds great. This mic has a rich, full tone with plenty of weight behind it. It always sounds balanced and natural, so EQ’ing is simple and often not even necessary.

Whether it’s the club on the corner or the festival stage, that silver mesh screen in the singer’s hands is most likely at the end of an SM58. Everyone from Bono of U2 to the President of the United States has trusted a Shure SM58 to get the job done, and if you have performed even a handful of gigs there’s a good chance you have too.

The enduring popularity of the Shure SM58 naturally inspired the evolution of a high-performance model based on that classic template, and the Beta 58A was the result.

With the same durability for no-holds-barred live performance, the Beta 58A starts with a similar sonic template and extends the microphone’s frequency range, offering firmer lows and more shimmering highs, with greater overall output besides. The Beta 58A has impressive sensitivity for a passive dynamic microphone means it even works great with softer voices (although it has the durability to survive the assault of an iron-throated rock belter, too, as Axl Rose of Guns ’N Roses has proven time and again). All of that plus its pristine response enable the Beta 58A to double up in recording studio environments, as well, with great results.

"835" mic model,
based on* a Sennheiser® e835

Combining tight lows with an appealing presence in the highs and an extremely high output, the Sennheiser e835 has found favor as an alternative live-vocal mic with many rock and metal singers. Despite its canny knack for translating growls, roars, cupped and swallowed mic techniques, and just plain brutal singing with grace and clarity, the e835 is nevertheless an outstanding choice for the most delicate vocal styles, too. It offers outstanding breadth and articulation whatever you hit it with: purr softly, and it captures every nuance; hit it hard, and it responds with plenty of girth and muscle.

Its versatility has helped make the Sennheiser e835 the choice of everyone from Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas to rocker Bert McCracken of The Used. Whatever your own vocal style, the e835 is a great alternative voice for your mic locker.

Given the company’s background in high-end audio design and manufacture, Audio-Technica knows a thing or two about sound quality. Unsurprisingly, their entry into the microphone world brought an instant modern-classic to live performance: the AE4100.

The AE4100 cardioid dynamic mic has won plenty of fans in a broad spectrum of genres for its ability to offer great “up-front” presence in any mix while remaining unerringly flattering to male and female vocals alike. Offering great sensitivity yet outstanding resistance to pops and plosives, and good feedback rejection besides, the AE4100 provides superior sonic class and quality in a package that is nevertheless designed for the demands of hand-held live performance. Its impressive detail and depth have won it a place on countless major-name tours and concert hall stages, yet it is just as happy to get to work on your next pub gig.

The most popular microphone in a popular series, the OM5 has quickly established itself as a new sensation for live vocals, while making inroads in stage and studio as well.

Although it is considered by many to be an alternative to the standard-setting Shure SM58, the OM5 has a voice all its own, which is characterized by a presence that is supremely crafted to help live vocals ride on top of even the heaviest or muddiest of band mixes. The fact that one professional sound engineer after another has added this mic to their touring rig is good testament to this mic’s achievements, and singer Shirley Manson of the band Garbage, for one, wouldn’t hit the road without her OM5.

Whether you’re a mic-swallowing metal-meister or a sultry café crooner, the OM5 offers the balance and response to make you sound clear, clean and right there every time, in any setting.