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Arny Krueger wrote:
For a 16-year-old, a SM58 or SM59 seems about right. Especially their
nail-pounding durability.

My favourite for this is the ol' Electrovoice 747. Survived being dropped
off the top of Wembley stadium. Can be plugged into a chassis mount XLR -
useful for testing. And for testing 100 volt line - it survives that too.
;-)

Someone before me bought a bunch of cheap Sennheiser dynamic mics for
our youth room sound system. This is a classic 14-16 year old usage
situation. The mics themselves have held up, but I had to replace every
screw-on screen ball because they fell apart.

I've replaced quite a few on '58s too. Dented ones don't look too good on
camera.

I cannot imagine the kind of pudding a bunch of kids would make out of a
mic like the AKG C214. No matter, it would happen pretty quickly! For
most of us mortals who aren't million-dollar recording companies, $600
for this kind of pudding is way beyond the pale.

Money is no object to Iain. He's told us this many times.

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