Elgato Wave:3 vs Shure Beta 91A

What a mixed bag. First, the good. The sound quality of the microphone is excellent. There is no "low-fi" loss of high or low frequencies, clarity is excellent whether I am speaking quietly or loudly/near or far, the auto noise rejection/compression is smooth and unobtrusive, and there is almost no extraneous "room boom" reflections picked up that would otherwise be muddying things up (the room it is in has no acoustic treatment)

So you want that to be great and consistent throughout your record. Now recording kick drum is kind of a tricky thing. Some people have a hard time ge...

Now I am speaking into the Wave 3, spinning around to 90 degrees so you can hear the off-axis rejection and coloration. We will continue around the mi...

This mic has a very neutral response so you'll need to EQ it more than other bass drum mics. There is a switch to dip the EQ around 300 Hz which will take some "mud" out of the mix. This is the best mic I've found for bass drums 24" and up.