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Welcome to the club

Your new PG microphone is part of a complete vocal, instrument and drum microphonefamily.It’srealgearforseriousplay.Soyoucanamplifyyourmessage. Capturetheimaginationofyouraudience.Andmakeaconnectionwithyoursound. Just as artists, visionaries and social leaders across generations and around the world have done with Shure products for more than 75 years.

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PGmicrophonesareengineeredtobeeasytooperate.ThePowerUpguideonthe insidepackagecoverwillhaveyoureadytogoinnotime.Formoredetailedsetup and usage suggestions, please see page 4 of this guide.

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	Speech
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A great microphone for spoken
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							Lead Vocals
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	A rugged microphone tuned to
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Brass and Saxophone

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A sensitive, flat response microphone ideal for use with acoustic instruments.

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Cymbals

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A high-performance microphone specifically tuned to capture lowend punch.

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A compact drum microphone for closemiking.Drummountincluded.

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Snare Drum

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The following suggestions will help you get the best sounding results from your PG microphones:

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Usage	Desired Response	Setup
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	Minimal “p” popping	away from the mouth, slightly
	and “s” sounds.	o to one side.

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	Maximum isolation	away from the mouth,
	from other sources.	directly in front of microphone.

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%DFNXS	Emphasized bass,	away from the mouth,
9RFDOV	maximum isolation	directly in front of microphone.
	from other sources.

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Usage	Desired Response	Setup
*XLWDU	0RVW DWWDFN	cm _ in
$PSOLILHU	Emphasized bass.	away from speaker, centered directly in front of
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	Higher frequency	away from speaker, at the edge of speaker cone.
	sound.
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	Balanced sound.	awayfromspeaker,directlyinfrontofspeakercone.

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%UDVV DQG	%ULJKW	cm _ in
6D[RSKRQH	Clear sound.	away from the instrument and directly in
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Usage	Desired Response	Setup
$FRXVWLF *XLWDU 0RUH EDVV		cm _ in
	Goodplacementwhen	from the sound hole.
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	Full sound.	from the sound hole.
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	Less detail.	from the bridge.
	1DWXUDO	cm _ in
	Wellbalanced,slightly	above the side, over the bridge.
	bright.
&\PEDOV	1DWXUDO	cm _ in
	(hi-hat)	aim microphone down toward cymbal, a few
		inches over edge.
	1DWXUDO	cm _ in
	(overhead)	above drummer’s head.

3LDQR	1DWXUDO EULJKW	cm _ in
		just over open top, above treble strings. Good
		placement when only one microphone
		is used.
	1DWXUDO EDO	cm _ in
	DQFHG	just over open top, one microphone above
		bassstrings,onemicrophoneabovetreblestrings
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Usage	Desired Response	Setup
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	Maximum bass	away from beater head (inside drum), slightly
	sound,highestsound	o –center from beater.
	pressure level.
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	Balanced sound.	away from beater head (inside drum), directly in
		front of beater.
	6RIW DWWDFN	cm _ in
	Balanced, resonant	awayfromoutsidehead,directlyinfrontofbeater
	sound.	(double head kick drum only).

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%DVV *XLWDU	6KDUS DWWDFN	cm _ in
$PSOLILHU	Emphasized bass.	from speaker, directly in front of the center of
		speaker cone.
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	Higher frequency	from speaker, at edge of speaker cone.
	sound.
	0HGLXP DWWDFN	cm _ in
	Full, balanced sound.	from speaker, directly in front of the center of
		speaker cone.