Shure
KSM313/NE
Ribbon · Figure-8 · 30–15,000 Hz
- A Roswellite ribbon rather than aluminium — it recovers its shape after the blast of air that would stretch a conventional ribbon permanently.
- 146 dB SPL from a ribbon, which is why this one gets put in front of a guitar cab instead of near it.
- Dual-voice: the two sides of the ribbon are voiced differently, so turning it around changes the sound.
Frequency response
No response curve yet.
MicSense only draws a curve traced from a graph the manufacturer actually publishes — it never estimates one from the microphone’s class. Shure publishes figures for the KSM313/NE but no response graph, so the numbers are in the spec table below and the chart stays empty.
Polar pattern
Generated from the first-order directivity formula for figure-8. It illustrates the pattern type — it is not a measurement of this individual model.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | Shure |
|---|---|
| Model | KSM313/NE |
| Type | Ribbon |
| Form factor | Side-address |
| Polar pattern | Figure-8 |
| Frequency range | 30–15,000 Hz |
| Sensitivity | 1.88 mV/Pa · -54.5 dBV/Pa |
| Max SPL | 146 dB SPL |
| Self-noise | — |
| Impedance | 270 Ω (actual, transformer balanced) |
| Connector | XLR3M |
| Powering | None (dynamic) |
| Weight | — |
| Price tier | Premium |
| Introduced | — |
Every figure above is from Shure’s own published datasheet for this model — see the datasheet. A dash means the manufacturer does not publish that figure; it does not mean zero.
What it gets used for
- Guitar cab
- Horn / brass
- Overhead
MicSense tags microphones by the job on a live stage, not by studio category — so you can filter for “kick in” or “monitor vocal” instead of working backwards from “large-diaphragm condenser”.
Compare it against the alternatives.
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