The Shure MV88 USB-C stereo mic mounts directly to your phone

Shure is updating its MV88 microphone for the modern property by adding a USB-C connector for mounting straight to your smartphone. The original MV88, released successful 2015, had a Lightning connector, but evidently that’s not practically useful anymore. The MV88+ added USB, but relied connected a cablegram and didn’t equine straight to a telephone aliases tablet. The MV88 USB-C brings backmost the original shape facet pinch a modern connector.

The MV88 USB-C is simply a condenser microphone pinch 4 polar shape options: stereo, mono cardioid, mono bidirectional, and earthy mid-side. There are besides apps (MOTIV Video and MOTIV Audio connected mobile, and MOTIV Mix connected desktop) that connection presets, arsenic good arsenic manual power complete gain, positive a five-band EQ, limiter, compressor, and high-pass select for fine-tuning your sound.

If you’re not willing successful getting into the nitty-gritty of things, though, you tin conscionable plug the MV88 USB-C straight into your phone, move connected the Auto Level Mode and Real-time Denoiser, and commencement vlogging aliases livestreaming pinch minimal hassle. Those features, positive the included foam windscreen, mean you should beryllium capable to locomotion down a engaged thoroughfare without being drowned retired by postulation aliases clipping your audio signal.

Shure is pitching the MV88 to contented creators. Its $159 value puts it successful the aforesaid scope arsenic many wireless lavs, for illustration those from Rode, that mightiness beryllium amended suited for solo vlogging. But if capturing the ambient sound of your surroundings is portion of your vibe, aliases if you want to seizure aggregate subjects without mic-ing group individually, the MV88 mightiness beryllium appealing.