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Munro
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Hi,
Me and some friends of mine in college are making a cartoon/animation and are trying to decide whether to buy Shure SM57 or Shure SM58 for doing voice-overs. The reason for not choosing a large-diaphragm studio mic is that we're on a budget and don't have a sound-proof environment like a studio. It'll all be done in a small apartment with computer, so a large-diaphragm mic would probably pick up too much noise from the computer itself and occassional traffic outside. Hence, the choice came down to those two mics by Shure and probably some sort of cheap mic preamp with proper cables and adapters for hooking it up to a sound card. I've searched some topics here and found one that deals with a choice between SM57 and SM58 with responses that the only difference is a pop screen/filter on SM58. However, I remember reading some reviews that said that SM58 also has a bass proximity effect unlike SM57. Can someone confirm if this is true? Would it be better to have a mic with bass proximity effect for doing voice-overs or the one without for a dryer sound? All our voices are pretty young and aren't deep, by the way. Some will be kept as they are, some will have reverb, flanger and pitch shift added later, so I'm not sure whether in some instances a bass proximity effect will be needed or if a recording without it is preferred for such applications. If SM57 and SM58 are, indeed, the same mics with the only difference being a pop screen/filter, then will SM58 still sound decent and umuffled if another external pop filter will be used? If they're the same then I would probably go for SM57 and use a soft foam windscreen if needed. However, if the bass proximity effect is necessary for voice-overs then I'll have to go with SM58. Thank you for taking your time to read this and your responses are, of course, appreciated.
Munro
Me and some friends of mine in college are making a cartoon/animation and are trying to decide whether to buy Shure SM57 or Shure SM58 for doing voice-overs. The reason for not choosing a large-diaphragm studio mic is that we're on a budget and don't have a sound-proof environment like a studio. It'll all be done in a small apartment with computer, so a large-diaphragm mic would probably pick up too much noise from the computer itself and occassional traffic outside. Hence, the choice came down to those two mics by Shure and probably some sort of cheap mic preamp with proper cables and adapters for hooking it up to a sound card. I've searched some topics here and found one that deals with a choice between SM57 and SM58 with responses that the only difference is a pop screen/filter on SM58. However, I remember reading some reviews that said that SM58 also has a bass proximity effect unlike SM57. Can someone confirm if this is true? Would it be better to have a mic with bass proximity effect for doing voice-overs or the one without for a dryer sound? All our voices are pretty young and aren't deep, by the way. Some will be kept as they are, some will have reverb, flanger and pitch shift added later, so I'm not sure whether in some instances a bass proximity effect will be needed or if a recording without it is preferred for such applications. If SM57 and SM58 are, indeed, the same mics with the only difference being a pop screen/filter, then will SM58 still sound decent and umuffled if another external pop filter will be used? If they're the same then I would probably go for SM57 and use a soft foam windscreen if needed. However, if the bass proximity effect is necessary for voice-overs then I'll have to go with SM58. Thank you for taking your time to read this and your responses are, of course, appreciated.
Munro
