anyone do vox with sm57?

[16S]

I prefer to use my B1 as well, but recently I had to record growls with an sm57 and it was quite ok.


16S, how are you positioned against the mic? I find that most of the times I get best results when the mouth is right at the level of the diaphragm and as close as possible without getting too much plausives.

Yeah, i end up being pretty close on the mic...too the point where plosives are a bit of a problem (although that can be managed with technique). I find if i position myself further away from the 57+pop shield and push the input gain i get too much of the room when tracking....

 

[Metaltastic]

I had a feeling you were gonna post something like that on this topic haha

...you're welcome?

 

[Styvo]

Gareth (XRatedDodo on here) has gotten some really cool results with the 57 as a vocal mic; requires a fair amount of eq (massive low-shelf cuts up to like 200 Hz) to get rid of excess bass/mud, but it can sound pretty decent once sliced and diced!

This is very true.

I have used it many times and keep surprising other engineers when they realise it was through a 57.
It does depend on the music and generally i like it through the Pendulum.

 

[Keessi]

I've used the 57 on vox and I think it works really well! But the best vocal mic I've yet to come by for metal is the i5. No kidding, try it out! It already eq's the sound pretty close to what is needed to make it sit in the mix. I've tried all sorts of mics for aggressive vocals, U87, TLM103, 57, 58, rode nt-1a, rode NTK and the i5 is the clear winner imo.

my chain is usually: singer(with the distance of 1 fist to the mic) -> popfilter -> i5 -> preamp -> eq(hi pass 100hz, wide boost at 6khz of 2-4db depending on vocalist) -> rvox compressor -> camelcrusher for a bit of dirt, not much!

 

[Soundlurker]

Yeah, i end up being pretty close on the mic...too the point where plosives are a bit of a problem (although that can be managed with technique). I find if i position myself further away from the 57+pop shield and push the input gain i get too much of the room when tracking....

search the forum for "portabooth" and make one It seems to work quite well. I haven't tried personally but the samples are nice.

 

[16S]

cheers...i was just thinking about better Iso.

 

[JeffTD]

Newest BTBAM was with a 58 on screams and sounds brutal as shit.

 

[mick thompson]

yea but i've already ran over mic technique with the prick and we still have the same problems. im really starting to think its his vocal tonality. also his vocals are very "nasely" and i've tried running exercises with him about using his upper pallet and holding his diaphragm to exhale more air but its just not happening. he certainly is loud and his scream covers low end to mid range (slight amount of high) but his clean vox is like getting an eq and throwing a smilie face on it.

i'll try some more compression but like you said much more and im going to run into feedback problems. also im talking about in a live suituation. so wouldn't a pop-shield (the big round ones?) look a little retarded on stage?

cheers for everyone's input