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TonyL wrote:
You're a prat. You'll never see one used for vocals in a recording
studio. Live sound has different priorities - actual quality often
coming well down the list. So add that to all the other things you
don't know.


I don't get to see Mr. Allisons posts directly but I did see a fragment
in your post.

Surely, accurate fidelity might not always be desirable. There might be
circumstances where the characteristic sound of a SM 58 might be
required to get a "live" on-stage sound. I'm also thinking of the common
practice of getting feeds from mics placed in front of overdriven guitar
amp speakers. Hardly "accurate fidelity" but much better than the dry
output from an electric guitar.

You're unlikely to need the noise cancelling properties of a 58 to mic up
a cabinet. For that job pretty well any half decent mic will do which can
handle the SPL. And a mic with such a tailored frequency response - for
specific close vocal use - may well be not what you want for this task.
I'd normally use a 'flat' response mic and EQ to taste.

Horses for courses. And I stand by my view that the 58 is crap for
anything other than live pop stuff where the only important thing is how
much level you can get out of PA and foldback.

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