OT: Ebay: now it's just getting ridiculous

elmuchoescadawg said:
If these sort of things look to good to be true its usually because they are
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That was the point dude. Don't buy these pieces of shit.
 
If your looking for cheap SM57's, check out those GLS Audio ES-57 mics. A few people at the homerecording BBS have some and say there's not a whole lot of difference in sound. Personally, I feel that SM57's are a bit overpriced anyway.

Also, you can find some of shure's older sm57 predecessors on ebay for really cheap. I just scored one for $7. :kickass:
 
im about 90% positive i bought two fake beta57's about 6 months ago. the xlr connections are shit and the construction blows but it says shure on it everywhere, idk im pretty sure it was fake, it came in the normal box with manuals and everything but the quality of it sucked ass. i still use them because i have no money to buy others. but watch out, id say unless you are 100% sure taht u are buying a genuine off ebay just go get it at guitar center its only 90 bucks and a hell of alot less hassle
 
SM57's are not overpriced. For a mic that can be used on just about anything I'm pretty sure it's $90 well spent. While yes, an SM57 isn't ideal on overheads or this and that...it can work. You can quite literally buy 10 SM57's and start up a little project studio with the ability to record drums, vocals, guitars, and bass if you wanted to. Your end results won't be as great as say a set of traditional mics for certain things, but it won't sound horrible, that's for Shure :)lol:). Sorry about the lame joke.

~e.a
 
I bought an SM57 kinda assuming it was fake, though now I'm not so sure - it was disgustingly cheap, but it came with everything the real ones do; clip, the snazzy bag, manual, a little velcro cable-tie thing, and a warrenty card with the right information on it that Shure have happily accepted as genuine.

However the build quality isn't quite there - the insides aren't very neat and almost look hand-soldered (I'm assuming Shure do it with machines). The casing is spot on though.

Sound-wise, I haven't really had a chance to record it properly; I've used it live and it works fine, sounds okay but through a PA it's hard to tell. The only thing I've recorded with it were some vocals, and I don't have enough experience with the real thing to say whether it sounds right or not - it needed a boost in the mids to make it sound anything close to usable, but it's certainly clearer and sharper than the other cheap-ass mics I have lying around.

Steve
 
Apparently the only immediately obvious way to tell is by weighing them (the fakes are lighter), without gutting the things and going through the components. I got a 58 off ebay a while back and thankfully it appears to be the real deal. Took a lot of research and I'm still not 100% s(h)ure, but I used it for vocals on a demo a few weeks back and it sounded fine to my ears.
 
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