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i just bought a pair. vocals maybe.
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Davedog Tue, 09/20/2005 - 17:45

I used to own a decent sized club PA system. I owned 20 SM57's. Some newer(now they'd be 15 years old!) some very much older. Like everything else they all sounded different. I still have a couple of the best sounding ones. Unidyne III's. BIG difference in these and the newer ones. The problem now in finding a great condition, good sounding mic like these, is they have all been on the road, out in the club, used for hammers, thrown at idiots, etc etc.....

And dont be afraid to let it out Coyote....Its okay, we're all friends here. I agree and I disagree. Until you've heard a 57 (a really nice old one) through a mic pre that does it justice its easy to see why you'd think that. The Audix i5 mic is supposed to be a fairly good representation of an SM57. Its not. It kills them. For a snare a Beyer 201 is way more accurate. I know theres all these folks that are liking the 609 Sennheiser. I guess I gotta hear one but I've spent a lot of time with the 409 which it seems to be based on. WHAT could possibly sound like a 409 at that price????

So for Senorfedup....a 57 is NOT a vocal mic per se....but then this aint rocket surgery so use em on any damn thing you want to. Theres much better things than vocals...however.

anonymous Tue, 09/27/2005 - 13:31

Folks will probably think this is crazy, but I've actually had some really good luck using a 57 for vocals in a pinch. It captures the mids that really help vocals stand out in a loud mix without a bunch of tweeking, it can be used for darn near anything, and it's cheap. I wouldn't recommend it for everything, and a nice condenser is usually better, but I'd say give it a shot and see what happens.

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