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The Shure SM57 unidirectional (cardioid) dynamic microphone is one of the most popular microphones ever produced. It is exceptional for musical instrument pickup or for vocals. With its bright, clean sound and carefully contoured presence rise, the SM57 is ideal for live sound reinforcement and recording. It has an extremely effective cardioid pickup pattern which isolates the main sound source while minimizing background noise. In the studio, it is excellent for recording drums, guitar, and woodwinds. For musical instruments or vocals, the SM57 is a consistent choice of professional performers. Its outstanding performance, legendary reliability, and diversity of application make this "workhorse" the choice of performers, producers, and sound engineers the world over.
The SM57 is the most popular choice for a professional musician who wants to mic up their amplified or acoustic instrument such as a guitar amp or bass amp, saxophone, trumpet or drums. It is used on stages and in studios around the world. The contoured frequency response with its presence rise, helps the instrument cut better through the main mix. The extremely effective cardioid pickup pattern isolates the main sound source and will simply record what you point at it while rejecting sound from the rear.
The SM57 features a distinct frequency and presence boost. This presence boost offers crispness to drums and clarity to guitar amps. A snare crack. An arpeggiated chord. A powerful saxophone solo. The notes that flow from your instrument connects your audience on a visceral level.
The Shure SM57 is a world class microphone. It’s been around for ages and, while that doesn’t have to mean much because some mics such as the SM58 I find to be always an inferior option, I think with the 57 Shure have really nailed it. I bought this for a recording session for an acoustic guitarist I work with. The mic sounded great on each guitar he brought in. Or rather the guitars all sounded great through it. Naturally you’ll want to do additional processing for a polished recording but this mic offers such a wonderful sound on all it captures. Just a little EQ & compression along with any time based effects will really make your source material shine. I now primarily use this as a vocal mic live and in the studio. It works wonderfully for that as well. Live I use no additional processing and in the studio I get pretty effect heavy. In both situations it stands up. The Shure SM57 is at home in anyone’s studio or live rig and I truly believe Shure will probably be manufacturing this microphone for all eternity with good reason.
Versatile inexpensive mic that works on just about anything. I hate to call this a "budget" mic because people get the wrong idea. This inexpensive mic is great on acoustic guitar, snare drums, and anything transient heavy. And, it's great on female vocals!
SM57: As good as it comes…a classic. And another xlnt Vintage King purchase.
True workhorse of the audio recording world. Love it! Used on multiple recording sessions, but I needed a another one, so welcome to the family!
The Swiss Army knife of the audio world. You can use these for anything and they last forever and sound good.
Since the early 70s, it continues being all that I anticipate of the Shure SM57, including its ruggedness! Tim Pledger
You can't go wrong with these, they are an industry standard for a reason. Vocals, guitar, snare drums, toms, etc., they do the job and they're super-durable. A bargain, frankly.
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