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In July 2026, the Rolling Stones released their newest record, “Foreign Tongues.” The album has musical contributions from Steve Winwood, Paul McCartney, Bruno Mars, and contains a song recorded prior to the death of drummer Charlie Watts. Here is the 60 second video teaser for the new recording: The Stones In The Studio. Shure microphones appear a minimum of twelve times in the footage. 0:02      SM7      Keith Richards0:05      SM7      Keith Richards0:10      SM7      Ron Wood0:12      SM58    Ron Wood0:20      SM7      Keith Richards0:23      SM7      Mick… -more-

Let’s take a trip back to 1956, seventy years ago, for the opening of the mid-century modern office headquarters and manufacturing facility of Shure Brothers Incorporated. This building at 222 Hartrey Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, served as the hub of our worldwide operations. Designed and engineered by A. Epstein & Sons, this structure served Shure for nearly fifty years. The manufacturing wing produced phonograph cartridges, microphones, magnetic tape recorder heads, and other audio devices. Shure Brothers headquarters, Evanston Illinois, 1956 Our… -more-

Cover of a 1940 Shure catalog for phonograph cartridges, microphones, cutters, stands, and accessories. Louis Prima performs with a Shure Unidyne on the set of Hey Boy! Hey Girl!, a movie in which he costarred with his wife, Keely Smith. The movie was loosely based on the couples’ Las Vegas act. It was one of the most popular attractions in Las Vegas in the mid 1950s, featuring the vibrant song-and- dance team performing with Sam Butera and the Witnesses. Early… -more-

Introduced in 1964, the Shure M100L Portative Stereo System consisted of a DUAL model 1009 automatic turntable, a Shure V15 phonograph cartridge, a solid-state [transistorized] preamp/power amplifier, and two “total range loudspeakers.” Controls were Volume, Balance, Treble, Bass, Input Selector for Phono/Tuner/Microphone, and Stereo/Monaural switch. The M100L did not contain an AM/FM tuner, only an input for an external one. The microphone input [an RCA phono jack] was an unusual feature, perhaps meant to encourage the sale of a Shure… -more-

Is the KSM8 the first Shure unidirectional moving coil microphone with controlled/reduced proximity effect? It is not; that honor goes to the Model SM53 introduced in the early 1970s. Model SM53 Note the “porthole” openings near the XLR connector. By positioning these rear-entry acoustical ports far away from the mic element, proximity effect is reduced. Electro-Voice used a similar principle for its “Variable-D” microphones. Soon after the SM53 was introduced, the model SM54 debuted with the sole difference being a… -more-

One of the most celebrated figures in jazz, Ella Fitzgerald performs at the Down Beat Club on her 30th birthday, in April 1948. Using a Shure Unidyne that captured her three-and-ahalf octave range, she captivated an audience that included luminaries of the music world such as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman (seated at the table in front of the stage). Her career began when she attended a talent show at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem in 1934. The 15-year-old girl… -more-

Our Unisphere trademark dates to the mid-1960s when Shure was defining the appearance, language, and identity of professional vocal microphones. Unisphere was first used April 6, 1966. We then filed for a United States trademark on April 20, 1966; the trademark was registered August 1, 1967. As of June 2026, Unisphere remains registered to Shure Incorporated. The Unisphere trademark applied to a subset of our Unidyne family of products. Introduced in 1966 like the SM58, Unisphere models featured a ball-shaped… -more-

With a futuristic profile, perfectly suited for a 1930s science fiction movie, Shure 55 Series Microphones exhibit a timeless design that has come to symbolize the very idea of “microphone.” Although the elegant chrome grille and sculptured lines have made the 55 the most recognizable microphone produced, inside the classic exterior is an equally impressive engineering accomplishment. The Shure Unidyne has been “a movie star” since the 1940s. In The Long Denial, released in 1948, songstress Gloria Grahame uses the… -more-

The title of today’s Tech Tip was written by Mark Brunner, departed friend and colleague, who created the Shure Historian role for your author. This eight-word sentence is my inspiring job description. “Own Shure History” = make certain Shure history is accurate via thorough ongoing research. “Build Roads To It” = establish methods to deliver Shure history to all who find it of interest. One of the many roads is YouTube which hosts videos describing aspects of our history. One… -more-

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