Shure SSI MX418D-C

Microflex: A "range" approach serving professional installations

The Microflex series was designed with a simple idea: to offer a common foundation for demanding environments where capture must remain stable and predictable. Rather than multiplying isolated solutions, the range groups several formats within the same design logic to facilitate the standardization of a microphone inventory and harmonize the sound result across projects spread over multiple spaces.

This consistency is especially useful when ensuring the same voice quality across different usage contexts, for example between a broadcast studio, a conference room, and a stage environment. Staying within a single family provides clear reference points during deployment, operation, and maintenance.

For which uses and teams?

Microflex installation microphones are primarily intended for integrators, stage managers, and technical teams who prioritize a reliable, coherent solution that can be easily adapted to the venue's configuration. The goal is to maintain clear and intelligible speech, whether it is a podium intervention, a conference exchange, or voice capture in theater and broadcast contexts.

The range addresses the most common installation constraints: variations in microphone-to-speaker distance, more or less reverberant acoustics, discretion requirements, and mobility imperatives. Depending on the scenario, a wired model will be chosen for permanent integration, or a wireless version when setup flexibility becomes a priority.

An integration-oriented design: directivity, consistency, and cabling choices

Interchangeable capsules: adapting capture to the acoustics

The key point of the series lies in its interchangeable capsules. This approach allows you to adjust directivity as closely as possible to the real environment without changing the entire solution. In practice, this helps control the balance between the useful voice and the environment, depending on the microphone distance, room reverberation, and ambient noise level.

Omnidirectional directivity favors natural and tolerant capture, useful when an open reproduction is desired. The cardioid helps focus the capture on the main source by further limiting ambient sound. The supercardioid, meanwhile, enhances lateral rejection for more complex contexts where better speech isolation is required.

Wired or wireless: the right solution according to usage

In installation, the choice between wired and wireless directly impacts ease of use and stage organization. A wired version naturally integrates into a permanent infrastructure, offering stable operation and reproducible commissioning. Wireless versions provide placement freedom and rapid deployment, especially appreciated when configurations change frequently or when visible cabling constraints need to be minimized.

Having both approaches within the same series facilitates project consistency: fixed and mobile zones can be combined while maintaining a range logic, homogeneous sound, and clearer management for teams.

Designed for speech in broadcast, theater, and conference

Microflex targets applications where comprehension is paramount: broadcast, theater, and conference. In these contexts, result consistency is as important as capture quality. The directivity approach and range coherence enable building reproducible solutions, project after project, while precisely adjusting the response to the venue and sound staging.

Technical specifications

Clamp included

No

Available directivities

omnidirectional, cardioid, supercardioid