The Shure Crystal microphone provides high-output with a supercardioid design. The supercardioid crystal design allows for excellent performance even while experiencing a great deal of background noise or excess reverberation. This cardioid, or heart-like, pattern makes the Shure Crystal microphone an excellent directional microphone for a number of practical uses. It is great for studio and home recording; and public speaking.
Instructions
Testing a Shure Crystal Microphone
1. Connect the Shure Crystal microphone with a standard three-pin XLR balanced microphone cable. In the cable connector, pins 1 and 2 are connected to the copper cable shielding and the inner copper core is connected to pin 3. This way one side of the microphone is grounded and one is in operation.
2. Connect the other end of the balanced XLR cable to your mixer or amplifier across a load of 5 megohms. The longer the XLR cable, the lower the output level.
3. Check the microphone by speaking into it, and watch your mixers VU meters for a response. Do not tap the microphone with your finger, it can damage the diaphragm of the microphone.
4. If no sound or a very low level of sound is being produced, make sure that you are speaking into the front of the microphone. The Shure Crystal microphone is of a supercardioid design that receives signal best from the "front" of the microphone.
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