After a few weeks with the SHURE SE 315, It´s time to do a review of them.
It won´t be a technical review, just feelings with them, more in the practice situation than live.
- They isolate a LOT, so if you are going to use it live, you NEED to have a GOOD mix of your drums and the others instruments in your ear. You won´t be able to play with your band and only the click track in your shure, for example. You won´t hear your playing, cero. Even in the rehearsal room.
- Same if you are practicing, you need your drums miced and your playalong/click track in your ear.
- They give better sound quality than Vic Firth SIH1 for the mix of music played.
- But if you are going to play/record and them listen on your speakers, it´s a pain to put them on and off. Much easier with the Vic Firth.
- Practicing, as far as the sound of the drums, without pluggin it, I prefer what I get from Vic Firth: warmer, more lows, sweeter, and they isolate less, so I get some of the real sound of the set, very important for the playing feel…
- I always practice with everything mixed in my headphones: when I play with the shure, with everything miced and mixed through them, I get some cold sound, too clean and very low ambiente sound. I feel weird playing with them.
In some sites I´ve read some people use them just for listening music. It´s not my recommendation: there are other HQ in-ear headphones (not for studio or drumming monitoring) that sounds way better and are more comfortable/cheaper: Pionner, AKG, Sennheinser, Sony…and for ¼ of the price. I have tested all here at home. Some decent sony (in-ear models) gives me more suitable sound, but they are not very appropiate for playing drums, because you get a lot of highs frecuencies of your drums.
So, I keep practicing with the Vic Firth.
Live, I´ve not tried the shure in a “everything” monitored situation, yet. Most of the gigs have been in small places, so as soon as I can (and have more soundcheck time) I will give them a more dedicaded try/time.
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Just for complementing the review:
For listening music:
These are what I have at home, and others similar models. I preffer them over the Shure.
For outside:
At home:
My AKG K66 are always great:
