Do I have a reason to use my shure sm58?

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:17 am

theres never a good reason to sell any of your mics (unless it's an MXL mic).

they all have unique characteristics and can come in useful for something down the road (except MXL mics, like i said)

i suppose if you're "getting out" of recording then you could sell anything you want. i feel like i can never have enough microphones!

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:26 am

What's your beef with MXL, Dave?

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:47 pm

hah, just messing around.

i owned 2 of their pencil condensors and they both sounded terrible.

anyone wanna buy some cheap pencil condensors?? Razz

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:57 pm

I LOVE a bargain. Especially when its microphones. As for those cheap pencil mics....NOT a bargain at 'free to good home'..............

Take your $100 condenser mics....OK just to be fair, take all the $100 mics available. How many of em really really SUCK?

Did anyone choose the SM57/58 ?

Didnt think so.

SM56/57/58 GOING STRONG UNDER $100 FOR OVER 25 YEARS..............

Now I'm not saying there arent good sounding mics out there for around the $100 mark. There are several. BUT, none of them are a staple of the music business like the SM series. Yes, there are mics that sound 'better' than the 58 for vocals. You can pick one up today for something in the neighborhood of $150-300. You can also drop it accidently and go get another one for the same price. AND as we all know, 'better' is a relative term.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:53 am

I really loved this guy Tad Donnelly! I think we both have a similar style when it comes to smoking pot, drinking alcohol, recording rock-and-roll? So, his work is probably first-rate..... When it comes to drinking pot, recording alcohol and smoking rock-and-roll?? I really loved the camerawork also, as it seems the camera operator was also, recording pot, smoky alcohol and drinking rock-and-roll??

Potting a smoking drink
Ms. Remy Ann David

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:58 am

I suspect MOST of those cheap pencil condenser mics are made in the same factory by the same people for a variety of brands of microphones. I wouldn't use them for anything serious.

But MXL has a lot of better stuff than that, and some of it is American-assembled from Asian parts. (The V6 specifically). I've done some fantastic things with the M3 and the V6 microphones. For in-studio vocals, the M3 is one of my favorite mics, beats everything I've put it up against so far. The price is ridiculously cheap for its sound, worth a listen at least, and easy enough to replace if it's lost, damaged or stolen.

I've heard similar comments by ADK and SP fans. Plenty of affordable, great sounding mics out there, if you know what to look for.

You can never go wrong with a bunch of 58's, but it's nice to have some other crayons in your coloring box as well.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:18 am

Tad is an ex-junkie, he's totally straight now, what you see is residual!!

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:17 am

Well, I think that proves that, good drugs never die? I mean, good rock-and-rollers never drug? Drink?.....Thanks, I'd love one.

Making love with the same old microphones
Ms. Remy Ann David

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:57 am

Tad is awesome! haha Did you see what he had to say about Nuendo? It appearantly has that BOOM BOOM BOOM!

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:16 pm

58 on the floor tom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:55 am

therecordingart wrote:

Tad is awesome! haha Did you see what he had to say about Nuendo? It appearantly has that BOOM BOOM BOOM!

I think that he meant NINTENDO, but was too stoned to realize it...
Nice studio, eh? He packed the walls with fiberglass,"the real good pink kind". Hey, Tad, everything pink is the good kind!

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:17 pm

Quote:

Do I have a reason to use my shure sm58?

This topic has got to be a joke.

It's November 22nd, not April 1st, right?

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:51 pm

Happy Thanksgivena58!

Joke? So you heard the one about the Jew and the Italian recording engineers?

Burp.....excuse me.
Ms. Remy Ann David

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