
CoolCat
Well-known member
I just purchased a Shure SM81LC, $285 w/pop filter from Guitar Center. (Noticed you can't return microphones anymore to GC!!NO REFUND due to un-Healthy spit screens...)
My purchase intention was to "leap" up a level from my SM57, not just a tiny step.
So I bought the SM81..I'm still not saying Awesome!, tho....and was expecting more?....it wasn't a "leap" away form the SM57 and I can't return it!! I swear I didn't spit on it...hee,hee
Reading these articles have helped tremedously, and miking the SM81 from the acoustic guitar fret board(away form the hole), 6inches out helped greatly. The SM81 has alittle more clarity than the SM57...but not $200 worth....I've tried LD's but the CAD and an AT3035 was sold off. I'm starting to think I could make a Nuemann sound crappy??
I have a Yamaha Mixer/8 track Minidisc with a 3630 inserted.
SM81LC pointed at my sweet old,old Yamaha acoustic.
What's my next upgrade, gang?
Because this "pro-industry standard SM81" apparently is being degraded due to something else in my chain.
where's the love??
My purchase intention was to "leap" up a level from my SM57, not just a tiny step.
So I bought the SM81..I'm still not saying Awesome!, tho....and was expecting more?....it wasn't a "leap" away form the SM57 and I can't return it!! I swear I didn't spit on it...hee,hee
Reading these articles have helped tremedously, and miking the SM81 from the acoustic guitar fret board(away form the hole), 6inches out helped greatly. The SM81 has alittle more clarity than the SM57...but not $200 worth....I've tried LD's but the CAD and an AT3035 was sold off. I'm starting to think I could make a Nuemann sound crappy??
I have a Yamaha Mixer/8 track Minidisc with a 3630 inserted.
SM81LC pointed at my sweet old,old Yamaha acoustic.
What's my next upgrade, gang?
Because this "pro-industry standard SM81" apparently is being degraded due to something else in my chain.
where's the love??