bubbagump
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Perhaps I will be brow beaten for this... but why is the SM58 such a standard? I run FOH quite often and I find 58s to be the muddiest, low mid heavy, New York subway announcer, icky proximity effect mics in a "pro" level stage mic. (Not that they are the worst, as those 5 mics for $50 things are even more miserable.) What I can't fathom is how they are still an "industry standard". I can understand 45 years ago when that was all there was... but now there are so many other better sounding and just as durable alternatives. Why do folks even bother with 58s on stage any more? Folks just use what they are used to? Every person who tells me that "a 58 suits my voice" ineveitably has all the mud problems I noted above. I am just trying to get my head around how a 58 can survive when OM5s and e835s etc exist.