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From: Steve & Anne Price
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:25:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: microphones

On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Pete Brunelli wrote:

> For a mic i typically use an EV vocal mic, which
> sounds like a hotter SM58. In general, the 57 is a 58 without the
> pop-screen. I can see the flames from here, but they sound alot alike.
>
Not a flame, and they do sound a lot alike, but the Shure SM58 has the
high mids boosted to give vocals more presence and the SM57 has a flatter
response. I don't think that the ball end on the 58 is just a
pop-screen, but it's been a while since I read the specs. Also, my
experience with smaller amps at lower volume is that you don't get the
crunch of having them overdriven, but you still get a warm tube sound,
which I like. I play with a bullet through a small tube amp, and I
switch periodically to blowing straight through the vocal mic straight
into the board. I don't cup that mic, but rather leave it on a stand and
play towards it. It's much brighter than the bullet-tube amp combination
since it's balanced for my vocals, but it is clean. When I mic my small
amp, I don't like to hang a mic by the handle in front of it because it's
off axis so much (the mic ain't pointing toward the sound), though that
does work. I prefer having a small desk stand or boom (if the amp is up
on something) hold the mic in front of it aiming the mic almost directly
at the speaker in the amp. That way that mic doesn't have to be turned
up more than it it needs to be, and I think is less prone to losing the
lower mids. But I agree that a 57 or 58 would work and sound cleaner
than a bullet or JT30 and sound very similar, though some prefer the 57.

Steve Price