anyone use SM57 with VF-160???

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anyone with past experience with both the VF150 and Sm57 please help me out. im looking to buy a 57 but wanted some opinions on how it works in areas such as: acoutic guitars, guitar amps, snares, and vocals.


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The 57 is a good for most anything. If it will be your first mic then get one.
It is good on vocals, drums (snare, toms and OK on a kick), guirar cabs.
For an acoustic guitar you will get much better results with a condensor mic.

Spend some time in the Mic form.
 
On very multi-tracker I know about, people say you have to boost the internal pres a lot to get a good signal out of an SM-57. Because of that, some people prefer using external pres before going into the machine.
 
I just recorded a song yesterday with a sm57 on a vf 160

It is waiting for vocals lead guitar and a hammond organ. The 57 was used on the guitar that you hear first.
 
I use the onboard pres most of the time with my 57's. I get plenty of gain.
 
getupkid0717 said:
anyone with past experience with both the VF150 and Sm57 please help me out. im looking to buy a 57 but wanted some opinions on how it works in areas such as: acoutic guitars, guitar amps, snares, and vocals.


thank you for helping!
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If you want to hear how vocals/acoustic guitars sound with an SM57 paired with the fostex, listen to "off the floor":

http://www.nowhereradio.com/teainthesahara/singles

I also used the VTB1 preamp. That recording is just a bunch of scratch tracks, done with a peice of crap yamaha acoustic guitar. But you can clearly hear what a 57 sounds like on that acoustic and vocals. It would work it rock mixes...not as 'silky' as a condensor, but not horrible either.
 
A SM57 works just fine plugged right in to the VF160. No external pre required.
 
mharr552000 said:
A SM57 works just fine plugged right in to the VF160. No external pre required.
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Agreed. Using another preamp will just change the way it sounds - sometimes for the better, sometimes not. The VF pre's arent bad at all - abit gain heavy on the last quarter rotation though.
 
i just recorded a song using a sm 57 on the guitar and it sounds a lot better than trying to use my condensor for some reason. i recorded with a vf80ex and yes i did have to turn the gain up a lot, but i compensated by turning up the amp louder.
heres the song, its called spring symphony

www.myspace.com/terdfergusonhxc
 
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