Stupid Shure Questions

[mshilarious]

OK, we are all familiar (I hope) with the ongoing 57 vs 58 "debate"

But this one takes the cake--here is a question I received on a Beta 57 I am selling on eBay:

I have heard that the small blue band around the microphone holds the sound together. BS or what?? I see that yours is missing that band.

Anybody wanna take a crack at this one

 

[bubbagump]

Blue = cool.... with out the band it sounds much warmer. You can get the cool sound back if you do a rain dance with the mic in your left hand, so without the band is more versatile. If you want it to go back to a warm sound, a vocano worshippers dance with the mic in the right hand works. If you are really advanced, good old voodoo with chicken bones and the hair of a virgin sow can achive the same effects as the dances, but it takes more practice to get that right. I once tried the voodoo and turned a Neumann into crowbar, so you really need to be careful.

 

[elmerfunk]

"Place the mic in a brown paper sack with 6 old James Brown 45's swing it over your head and cackle like a chicken."

 

[CoolCat]

Hendrix had a BLUE Band, a head band....actually it was part of his afro wig.

I think thats what the poster was referring to about "blue bands".

glad I could help.

 

[xstatic]

Actually, 57's are cardiod mics. By adding the blue band, it does tighten up the pattern. It squeezes the diaphragm so that the mic becomes supercardiod.

 

[soundchaser59]

You can hit higher pitches with the blue band on......take it off to hit the really low notes.

 

[Big Kenny]

Hendrix had a BLUE Band, a head band....actually it was part of his afro wig.

I think thats what the poster was referring to about "blue bands".

glad I could help.

It held his head on.

 

[Farview]

The lack of the blue band denotes a left handed mic.

 

[tkingen]

It seems perfectly logical that mics without blue bands are not to be used if you are playing in a blues band.

 

[dgatwood]

They probably got sued by Blue for trademark infringement.

 

[Dogman]

The sound is all unraveled, but it's the best mic for a DJ.....

 

[L mandrake]

Decided to take this problem into the lab. I found a blue rubber band (the ones that hold broccoli together) and put it around my neck, 20 minutes later my head swelled to double its normal size and turned blue. Duplicating this experiment with a 57 I found that after 20 mins the head of the 57 had swelled into a round metal ball, becoming a 58. Nothing happened when I used red bands.

 

[superbeatballer]

I believe that's the Blue Man Group signature model 57. It flatters even the most annoying performances.

 

[ermghoti]

Anybody wanna take a crack at this one

I believe "crack" is the key word here.

 

[punkin]

I for one like chicken . They're cute and cuddly, and their feet are NOT creepy

 

[Big Kenny]

I for one like chicken . They're cute and cuddly, and their feet are NOT creepy

Reread the whole thread, still can't follow, must be the 70's acid flare-up again, DANG!

 

[xstatic]

Reread the whole thread, still can't follow, must be the 70's acid flare-up again, DANG!

Well, you are just lucky. I quit that stuff long ago, but I certainly wouldn't mind a freebie like that that I had no choice for

 

[big country]

do you know if any body is selling blue bands?
I have an old junky mic maybe the blue band will
help me sound better
I put crome all around my 64 buicks engine
valve covers, bolts,even polished the heads on it and
let me tell you that thing halled my ass