hey guys !

i ve got a sm 58 for a very cheap price but i dont know wheather it is genuine or not! can someone guide me how to identify genuine or fake mic! please! I wll be greatful to u!

Hey everyone, I recently spent all my money on a MacBook and a Firepod, and I need to wait a bit to get some mics. The only things I have available to me at the moment are 2 SM58s and 2 passive whirlwind DI. Soon I hope to upgrade to RODE NT5s.

I have a rhode ntk and UA 610 preamp. Would I benefit with recording anything with my old sm58? I am mostly recording acoustic guitar and vocals.

Will be using it with PTLE at home mainly for acoustic guitar, vocals and some electric guitar. Is this a first decent mic or is there anything else around £100 i should look at?

Ok, so, I'm attempting to record some guitar tracks onto a Zoom H4 4 track recorder. The recorder has 2 mic inputs. I have 1, possibly 2 sm58s available to me, and I just took the capsule off the mic, and placed it on an angle facing the amp. The recorder also has 2 built in condenser mic's in an XY pattern, if that would be better.

Hi I was wondering what I should look for when choosing a preamp for the Shure SM58.The singing style is heavy rock so plenty of headroom is what I am looking for aswell as overall warmth.Ive read that the SM58 needs a lot of gain to open up so something around 60db input gain?

Hails all,

Vocally is there a big difference between the 57 and 58? Would it be worth trying to use both when recording demo vocals? Right now I'm not looking for an awesome sound otherwise, I'd use better Mics but off hand I have a SM57, and a few 58's. Is there a large difference frequecy-wise in the two mics? I always thought they were pretty much the same save the covers.

How much different, technicly speaking, is the SM57 from the SM58 when Micing guitar cabinets? Is there a big frequency difference?

Hi everyone, I'm happy to have found this site and these forums. Hope I'll be able to help out some too.

I'm not Shure (Excuse the pun!) if this post is in the correct forum however I couldn't think where else to submit it :?

Having compared the Shure SM58's with other microphones, I noticed that it is not as sensitive picking up sound. With an AKG D 880M for instance, the gain does not have to be turned up as high for the same level of output.