Pyrazol

Hi Geoff, ha, you've had some more and larger gigs than I have, I must say ;) I can't really comment on having a good engineer as we mix all our own stuff on the computer and just give the venue a left and right channel to use. And I think our mixes are mediocre, to be honest... That said, I always leave the Dynamic Filter on NORMAL. I don't hear it working at all when I sing, but when handling the mic between songs the noise is just a tad better - even though the Beta 58a itself does an extremely good job of rejecting that as it is. I never set the dynamic filter to TALK because I think somewhere in the manual it says that's for talking applications (no surprise there). There you go, not much help, but that's what I think :D Martin

Hi everyone, it's been two months and I just got the following: XD-V75 standard (cardioid) mic XD-V75-SC and a Shure Beta58a capsule. I'm coming from a Shure BLX24/Beta58 system which gets on my nerves because of handling noise mostly. And I must say I concur 100% with Christoszen. The XD-V75 has a bit of handling noise. I'd say it's just a little bit better than the Shure BLX system. The XD-V75-SC has an insane amount of handling noise. It is unreal. I'm not kidding. It is way worse than the Shure BLX. If you tap hard on the mic casing you can even hear it vibrate. Terrible, considering it costs more than twice as much (as the standard V75). But now, for the winner - the XD-V75 with the capsule switched out for a Shure Beta58 is really awesome! The handling noise is practically non-existant. I also messed around with the dynamic filter. Which honestly doesn't help all that much anyway, because it only cuts noise when it's not very loud. It didn't improve the situation for the XD-V75-SC at all really. All in all, I'm keeping the XD-V75 with the Shure Beta58 capsule because that's a winner combo. But the stock capsules really aren't all that great IMHO. In case anyone has any other recommendations for a great (and cheap) super-cardioid capsule, you're welcome to drop me a line :) BTW: The XD-V75 and Beta58 combo is costing me just short of 800 bucks. That's the best deal for a digital wireless mic system I could find so far.

It is where I live - a Shure QLXD/Beta 58 set costs about €1200, whereas a Line 6 XD-V75 plus Beta 58 capsule would cost me €750, so about a €500 price difference. Hehe, thanks for the offer ;) But I'm not going to buy a mic right away. And I'm guessing shipping to Germany would be prohibitively expensive for that sort of equipment.

Thanks! That would be wonderful. I'm not in any particular rush in getting a new mic anyway. But doesn't (or shouldn't) the Shure QLXD series play in a wholly different league anyway? I mean, getting a Shure QLXD set costs about twice as much or more than a Line6 XD-V75 set. In the end I might just go ahead an buy a Line6 XD-V75 set plus V75-SC plus Shure capsule and then compare them all and send back whatever isn't working for me. I'm currently using a Shure Beta 58 BLXD set, which is okay but has a bit of handling noise, seemingly because of the plastic casing on the mic.

Hmm, that's too bad :( Is the handling noise the same between the standard V75 and the V75-SC, or is the SC worse? Otherwise I might just get the standard V75 set and buy an additional Shure Beta 58 capsule. That wouldn't make it much more expensive than the V75-SC and the V75 receiver.

@Christoszen: Have you tried out the Environment filter setting? I'm just about to buy a V75-SC since I prefer super-cardioid. But if the SC has more handling noise than the mic that comes with the V75 set on the same setting, then I guess I'm not going to buy it.