{"id":6343,"date":"2016-02-19T19:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2016-02-19T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:06:07","slug":"shure-vp88-battery-compartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/shure-vp88-battery-compartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Shure VP88 Battery Compartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Shure_vp88_battery_open.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6344\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6344 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Shure_vp88_battery_open.png\" alt=\"Shure_vp88_battery_open\" width=\"553\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Shure_vp88_battery_open.png 840w, https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Shure_vp88_battery_open-300x86.png 300w, https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Shure_vp88_battery_open-768x220.png 768w, https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Shure_vp88_battery_open-100x29.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been going crazy trying to remember\u00a0where the battery compartment is for my Shure VP88 microphone. I could not find any info online to open up the battery and put in a new battery for the VP88.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Shure user manual says to twist the bottom to open the battery case and sure enough it&#8217;s just that easy. You do not have to undo the philips style scree on the chassis. Just twist the bottom section.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve included a photo here in case anyone else has the same problem, so you can see which section to twist in order to open the battery compartment.<\/p>\n<p>The Shure VP88 takes camera style batteries. Here is the correct type of battery on Amazon:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=asklandtechno-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00006JPH3&amp;asins=B00006JPH3&amp;linkId=RKURBN5GX23W4KR4&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had my Shure VP88 for almost 15 years now. I use it primarily for field recordings where I need a wide stereo ambient pickup and details in the recording. I&#8217;ve read that many people use these as drum overheads and for studio recording. My VP88 has been used solely for nature recordings and is my #1 pick for all ambient recordings. It also does Mid Side (M\/S) recording.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Shure VP88 on Amazon:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=asklandtechno-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B0002IB6P8&amp;asins=B0002IB6P8&amp;linkId=6FCC4FC45ZHSK3LQ&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going crazy trying to remember\u00a0where the battery compartment is for my Shure VP88 microphone. I could not find any info online to open up the battery and put in a new battery for the VP88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1Ej","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6346,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions\/6346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}