SM 57's

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FIREproof

In the 70's, a hotel burnt down with our PA and mics. The stage collapsed into the basement and the mics layed in 2 feet of water for over a week. The fire dept. finally let us go in and salvage what we could. Good thing I took my bass home! I recovered my 57 and boom stand, took it apart , let it dry out for a few days, plugged it in, and it worked great. Used that mic for another 12 yrs. with no problem. That's why I am so impressed with the mic. Seemed to fit my voice fine. Oh yeah, it's FIREproof!! :cool: :D
 
Slowrider said:
In the 70's, a hotel burnt down with our PA and mics. The stage collapsed into the basement and the mics layed in 2 feet of water for over a week. The fire dept. finally let us go in and salvage what we could. Good thing I took my bass home! I recovered my 57 and boom stand, took it apart , let it dry out for a few days, plugged it in, and it worked great. Used that mic for another 12 yrs. with no problem. That's why I am so impressed with the mic. Seemed to fit my voice fine. Oh yeah, it's FIREproof!! :cool: :D
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I bet you wrote Smoke On The Water?

You ROCK!
 
Dot said:
Here's an example of a song using only 57's...
http://www.studioreviews.com/57song.htm

In a recent mic shootout I did for a vocalist at Blackbird Studio, a $99 SM57 beat out a $25,000 cherry-picked Telefunken Ela-M 251 - and a lot of other pricey mics. Here's a pic of the mess.

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Outstanding!

The recording sounds quite good considering it is ALL a SM-57 via a Roland VS unit! :eek:

This is not a recording with "all" 57's, but the snare top and bottom/toms/guitars/rhodes piano were all tracked with a 57 via a ART Dual MP preamp (almost every track in this recording used the ART, and the other mics used were AT 4033's).

 
Han said:
Even through the cheapest Behringer board one can hear the difference between a hi end condenser and a 57.
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John Sayers posted some audio clips here many years ago where a piano was mic'ed up with a SM-58 with some "corrective eq" applied, and a AT 4050. He would not tell anybody which was which until many people picked. Funny thing, all but 1 person (about 30 people or so) thought the SM-58 was the AT 4050.

By the way, the piano track was outstanding sounding too!

In the song I posted above, try to guess what the sax solo was recorded with. *hint...the mic has not been mentioned yet in this thread....
 
amra said:
To all those people trashing on the '57 - if you can't get at least a WORKABLE sound with an SM57 you might want to try a different career path or hobby.

Audio Engineering might not be for you.

Seriously.
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A-fucking-men brotha! :)
 
I have used a 57 to record a whole song before. Mainly because I was too lazy to set anything else up, but it ended up as one of the best sounding things I have ever recorded. Its all in the composition. Equipment is 3rd on the list of importance in my book.

1. Composition/Performance
2. Room
3. Equipment
 
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