Shure MV88+ Digital Stereo Condenser Microphone Reviews
The Shure MOTIV MV88+ Digital Stereo Microphone combines great sound and impressive versatility in a form factor that fits your on-the-go lifestyle. Now, the MV88+ is compatible with Android smartphones, making it available to more creators than ever before! This digital stereo microphone captures a clean, clear signal from almost any source. You'll find it very capable of capturing run-and-gun interviews, your next livestream, or living room recording session. With Shure's MOTIV App, you get powerful DSP and can adjust the microphone's mid-side capsule for whatever environment you're in. Plus, the MV88+ comes with a tripod, phone clamp, and a shoe-mounted mic clip.
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Highest Rated Reviews
If you are an iPhone recorder for guitar
This mic is what I was looking for out of pure simplicity. The iPhone speaker has poor audio but good video. This bridges that gap for me and doesn't take anytime to do so messing with software or other programs. For me, it's worth it and I'm glad I purchased it. I'm sure there are better mics or softwares out there for the more capable guitarists but this works for me. Just use the app that comes with the mic and it's very simple.
Shure MV88 condenser mic
Excellent quality as only Shure does. very easy to set up , clarity in recording is excellent. would definitely recommend.
Worth Every Penny!
I was hanging out with some great musicians doing open jam nights and we were all joking about how we came up with these great grooves but we will forget them by tomorrow. Not with the MV88+Video. The iPhone app has great presets and you can fully adjust the mic for any situation, band practice, two way conversations, vlogging, etc.. The settings are written to the mic so you can just hand the rig to a friend and let them start recording with their phone. You can hear and see your performance which is just awesome. Get yourself an MV88, you won't be disappointed!
Shure quality never let me down.
Took this mic on the band gig last Saturday and everyone was asking about how did I get such great sounding out my Iphone Pro13. The MV 88 + is the answer, great mic at very reasonable cost and the kit that comes with is solid.
Thank you Shure and big thanks to sweetwater for the always support.
Shure MV88 Kit
Love these mics and the entire setup.
Outstanding results
I was brought onboard to help improve the quality of scripted podcasts that were being done in-house by a corporation. We purchased and distributed these mic sets to the executives recording their respective parts on their iPhones. We ended up not using the ShurePlus Motiv app, even though it works very well, using the mics out of the box on another recording app that was simpler to operate. Fortunately the MV88+ worked transparently with the selected app. We did sessions via video conferencing, and I walked the participants through setting up their mics and software to record at 48khz 24bit WAV format and to send the files via download link to the production staff.
The MV88+s worked flawlessly in the field and gave me much better audio source material than is customary in this kind of situation to do the edits.
I will note that I had the participants use the windscreen. I think it sounded better with it, saving me from some of the excess sibilance that tends to plague these kinds of recordings.
The mount and tripod arrangement is perfect for desktop recording, making it a well integrated, one-box solution. Just add your smartphone and go!
For this kind of application the MV88+ really shines.
Very happy with this microphone
I needed a microphone that was portable, super easy to use and sounded great for recording and going live on my iPhone. I am very picky, and I am very happy with this microphone. The initial setup was very intuitive - it practically set itself up - and most importantly it sounds great. I did a test with Facebook live, and the audio quality was the best I've been able to get.
The stand was a little tricky to figure out. I needed some support with that. The stand can only hold my iPhone in landscape mode, not portrait mode, which makes it impossible for shooting video for several social media applications.
Shure MV88 +
The mic and mount are great. The software is very user-friendly.
However the first time I tried to record my band using it when I turned off the recorder it would not save the file and I lost the whole recording. I tried to get technical assistance from Sweetwater and never heard back from anybody.
I eventually just use the photos app in my phone to do the recording and then it saved OK but I would like to use Scherz software to record but I can't do that if I'm gonna lose everything.
So overall a good item but I can't trust recording software and I'm disappointed in Sweetwater's customer support.
Mv88+
Both the video software and the Mic software. I'm having difficulty using with a pixel 6. It freezes up shuts down. No controls. So far not thrilled with it and disappointed I didn't go with Sennheiser...
