| thats interesting, i listened to all 8 of mine before i modded them to see if one sounded better than another and heard no real difference...........don't know what Jim Williams was listening to though............ i even have an old SM56 with the high/low control.
Look at the answers from Shure
Someone should post some samples of Unidyne's vs SM57's so we could hear the difference, but we would probably be listening to the differences of aging mics, which is a cold hard reality of time.......i'm curious what he heard the major difference was and how old the mics he compared were (and what he like vs dislikes).
Jim also says you should never stick a mic 1"-2" away from a speaker as it won't capture the full sonic balance, that means alot of recordings out there don't have the full spectrum of the guitar tone.
as with any piece of analog gear, especially mics, time will change the sound..... maybe for the better.
Like i said before, my mics were not new. |