Live Vocal Mic: audix om5 vs beta 58 or other?

@TommyCrash,

I haven't used an OM5, but here is some info on it:  http://www.audixusa.com/docs_12/latest_news/EFkpAVllApqXUNZXVy.shtml

I went from a regular SM 58 to a Sennheizer e835, and I like it.

Have you gone to a local music store and done A/B comparisons?   Listen with headphone AND through a sound system and see what you like in a side-by-side shootout.

Bob

Two weeks ago a bought an e945.  I like it a lot more than the e800 series.  Actually I realized that my old mic was an e845, not an e835.  Anyway, the 900 series mics are supposed to be less susceptible to feedback, and have an extended high end that is rated to 18khz.  The e845 is rated to 16khz.  Shure Betas are rated to 16khz.  You can really hear that crisp sparkle in the sound on the high end of the e945.

Both the e845 and the e945 are Supercardioid mics, so they reject a lot more sound from the sides.

The e945 is a lot clearer and more transparent than my e845.  I've listened to the two mics side-by-side over headphones and also live at gigs.

In the phones I can hear the e845 breaking up in the low end.  It has more low end than the e945, but the e945 is much clearer.  I can hear the upper mids and highs are very clean and they cut through the mix in the e945.  With the e945 I can clearly hear my own mic above the other two singers when we sing harmony or unison.  My mic has a distinct sound over the shure and behringer mics my bandmates are using, and I greatly prefer it over the e845.

I had to special order it in order to compare it.  I paid up front and was prepared to trade it back to the store if it did not meet my expectations.  I'm keeping the e945. 

Bob