Shure has launched the VPH long microphone handle for on camera interviews and reporting. It features the Shure RPW interchangeable cartridge interface and XLR connectivity, for connection to broadcast mixers and recorders.

While loud, side-line sports interviews call for one type of microphone, capturing soundbites from a sea of reporters at a chaotic awards show, another. VPH offers a choice of a wide variety of high-quality Shure wireless interchangeable capsules that offer different polar patterns and sonic characteristics to match situational needs. Polar patterns include cardioid, supercardioid, hypercardioid and omnidirectional by way of PG58, SM58, SM56, SM87, Beta58, Beta57, VP68, KSM8 and KSM9 cartridge options. External phantom power is necessary to power the VH60H.

‘At Shure, we are continually responding to the needs of the market, and the new VPH long-handled microphone is a perfect example of this process in action,’ says Associate Director, Pro, Stuart Moots. ‘Our customers asked us to bring the flexibility of interchangeable wireless capsules into a wired microphone product, making it simple to switch between different polar patterns or from dynamic to condenser. The broadcast market is of the utmost importance to Shure, and we’re pleased to say capsules such as the KSM8 have proven exceptionally popular in this market thanks to its near-zero proximity effect. The long handle of the new VPH now brings the KSM8 capsule into a form factor that is suited to broadcast production.

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