what is that 75 million selling record with the sm-7?

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Just wondering who it was, I couldn't find any sales that high for a single or an album. Looks like Eagles are at the top w/ 28 million for greatest hits.
 
Sm-7

Yeah MJ supposedly used it.

What drew my interest tho was
the Los Lonely boys ME article, who used the SM7 on their recent Heaven CD too... said it's his go to mic in a noisy enviroment (less than perfect acoustics). Article said they recorded vocals in a non-treated room, SM7 is pretty good at room rejection..blah,blah,blah

I like my SM7, very happy with this purchase.

The SM7 did make my boom fall over yesterday tho, as its such a bulky thing..
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All of thriller used the SM7, as far as I know. Rumour is that Billie Jean used the SM57(!!!)
 
Well, there are two sources on this mystery.

Source 1. Harvey Gerst in his famous mic thread indicates it was the SM7 and that he may possibly own the original mic.

Source 2. The Shure mic site states that it was the SM57 (Also used by Cyndi Lauper and President Bush according to the same sentence).

I looked through Bruce Swedien's book "Make Mine Music" and he makes no mention of mic he used except a Neumann M49 on Michael's voice for another song. So, I pinged Bruce over at musicplayers.com. Let's see if he responds to answer this mystery.
 
Well, for the record, he says he worked on "Bad" not "Thriller".
 
I guess I can sell about 12 mics now. :)

musicplayer - haven't heard of that one, great, another music bbs. I bet there's a few more I don't know about.
 
junplugged said:
I guess I can sell about 12 mics now. :)

musicplayer - haven't heard of that one, great, another music bbs. I bet there's a few more I don't know about.
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Why? all you need to do is divide 12 into 48,000,000

Let's see:
48,000,000/ 12 = 4,000,000

Now, all you have to do is find records that sold 4,000,000 per mic that you want to sell and BINGO! You have a better mic than the SM7. Sell the ones that go below 4,000,000 though.

Good Luck.
 
Hey, I wonder what mic appears on the most high-selling records. Like the mic that appears on the most copies of the most records. My guess would be the U47.
 
mcolling said:
Well, for the record, he says he worked on "Bad" not "Thriller".
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You missed the point. He has worked with Bruce extensively. I think he is a reliable source.
 
"are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?" (use british accent)
 
Middleman said:
You missed the point. He has worked with Bruce extensively. I think he is a reliable source.
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Yeah, I'm sure he is a reliable source. That post isn't resolving the Billie Jean/"Thriller" SM7-vs-SM57 debate, however, since he is talking about "Bad".
 
mcolling said:
Yeah, I'm sure he is a reliable source. That post isn't resolving the Billie Jean/"Thriller" SM7-vs-SM57 debate, however, since he is talking about "Bad".
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You need to go read his post over at the other site. He implies that he worked with Bruce on "Bad" thus knows Bruce and learned from him that it was the SM7. Is this not clear?
 
Does anyone actually dig the vox sound on Thriller though? That's great that it sold well, but I don't think the vocals sound particularily amazing on that album at all... small, dry and somewhat thin. Just sounds like any old dynamic to me.

My favourite recently-recorded vocal sounds are on Death Cab For Cutie's latest two albums. They're huge, warm, and airy. I've been trying to find out what their signal chain is... even emailed them and like 10 different representatives/managers/etc but no response. Not that I thought one was likely.
 
Middleman said:
You need to go read his post over at the other site. He implies that he worked with Bruce on "Bad" thus knows Bruce and learned from him that it was the SM7. Is this not clear?
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Yes, you are right.

bleyrad: True, the sales figures have as much to do with MJ's dance moves as they do with the vocal sound -- if not more.
 
bleyrad said:
Does anyone actually dig the vox sound on Thriller though? That's great that it sold well, but I don't think the vocals sound particularily amazing on that album at all... small, dry and somewhat thin. Just sounds like any old dynamic to me.

My favourite recently-recorded vocal sounds are on Death Cab For Cutie's latest two albums. They're huge, warm, and airy. I've been trying to find out what their signal chain is... even emailed them and like 10 different representatives/managers/etc but no response. Not that I thought one was likely.
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I agree and was waiting for someone to actually bring this up. The vox on Thriller does not sound all that great. Funny how, if it is someone famous, we never question "did they really use the right mic?" Just because a SM7 was used on Thriller, now many people are probably scrounging to get one.
 
You talking VOX? Or just the Porter on ride to every hit train today?
The venerable SM57 would take the all time "on the record we all bought" gold ribbon; somewhere in the signal chain of most all recordings. Think Bruce Springsteens "Nebraska" album, gear it up the same and we can all sell the rest of our gear collection for good cassettes and talented mastering engineers...

Just a thoughtful dream of simplicity....mostly
 
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