SM57 used for bass drum! ahhh!

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Please help. Our drummer for the band I'm in used my SM57 for micing his bass drum for a pa system. he had in in the air hole. Will this or did this do harm to the mic? I haven't tested it out yet, it was just yesterday.
 
It's fine.

The 57 can easily take that SPL. It'll sound awful, but it can take it. In fact when I was touring my drummer used a 57 as a tire chock. It was dark and he said he couldn't tell what it was (he was an idiot). I plugged it in and it worked fine.

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This one time at band camp I stuck a sm57 in my.......... I mean........eeeerrrrrrrrrrrr. Toms right almost. The RHCP used a sm57 on there kick for their last album. So it can sound good! As for the abuse, that's nothing for a 57. Condersors and ribbons, that's another story.
 
I'm shure (haha), unless it was a typo. I know some peeps that use a 57 and a d112. OR I've seen/heard a sm57 with a u47 back away.
 
hmmm, The Red hot Chilli Peppers last album? If you mean californication they used a Neumann U47 on the kick, Sennheiser 421's on the toms, U87's as overheads, and 2 SM57's and a Neumann KM84 on the snare. The RHCP's are more renound for the use of the SM57 for vocals in the studio
 
...although that crappy kick sound could have easily been recorded with a 57... or a radio shack special...
 
RHCP?

I had heard that it was an SM57 that was used on the bass drum of blood sugar sex magic midgits. Ok maybe the midgits thing I made up myself...
 
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