Hahaha, I'm pretty sure that's so you can loosen the wax to get the transformer out dude, not just for the sake of boiling it
ever tried to make a soup out of it?
Using a 57 for vocals
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ever tried to make a soup out of it?
vespiz
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[quote="Evil" Aidy;7866778]Thanks! Yeah sure dude, I need to double check a couple of things and then I'll happily post the settings.
I love the SM57 - although I've not had much experience in using any other mics really. I have an old Shure Beta Green which was fairly ok for live use but was lacking something when I tried recording with it.[/quote]
Thanks! Yeah sure dude, I need to double check a couple of things and then I'll happily post the settings.
I love the SM57 - although I've not had much experience in using any other mics really
. I have an old Shure Beta Green which was fairly ok for live use but was lacking something when I tried recording with it.[/quote]Thanks! Yeah sure dude, I need to double check a couple of things and then I'll happily post the settings.
"Evil" Aidy
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Hahaha, I'm pretty sure that's so you can loosen the wax to get the transformer out dude, not just for the sake of boiling it
Hahahahaha!
That makes sense dude! I've boiled bass guitar strings before with good results but I wasn't convinced it would have such a desirable effect on my best microphone.ever tried to make a soup out of it?
Of course dude, add a few onions, some tomatoes and a little stock.
Instant SoupM57!
As far as removing the transformers I found a post Jeff made a while back on the Clayman sound sticky.
"Take an SM57, unscrew at the middle 'joint' - you have two parts, the 'shaft' and the 'capsule' (note that I'm not calling it the 'head' because I'm not in the mood for cock jokes), joined now only by two wires. Snip the wires on the capsule end. There's a little screw near the narrow end of the shaft - screwing it in will allow you to remove the XLR plug from the body. That will now be connected to the capsule by two wires - snip those at the plug end. Boil the body (yes, boil in a pot of water) for about ten to fifteen minutes - not in a microwave, as that'll fuck with the transformer, which is somewhat handy to have around - and a bunch of hot glue in the shaft will soften, allowing you to pull out a gunky mess of nonsense that happens to contain the transformer. Remove this, and take two pieces of spare wire and hook the XLR plug back to the capsule, and assemble.
Pictures at some point... really, I'll get to it...
Jeff"
Sounds like something I don't want to do to a microphone Ha.
"Take an SM57, unscrew at the middle 'joint' - you have two parts, the 'shaft' and the 'capsule' (note that I'm not calling it the 'head' because I'm not in the mood for cock jokes), joined now only by two wires. Snip the wires on the capsule end. There's a little screw near the narrow end of the shaft - screwing it in will allow you to remove the XLR plug from the body. That will now be connected to the capsule by two wires - snip those at the plug end. Boil the body (yes, boil in a pot of water) for about ten to fifteen minutes - not in a microwave, as that'll fuck with the transformer, which is somewhat handy to have around - and a bunch of hot glue in the shaft will soften, allowing you to pull out a gunky mess of nonsense that happens to contain the transformer. Remove this, and take two pieces of spare wire and hook the XLR plug back to the capsule, and assemble.
Pictures at some point... really, I'll get to it...
Jeff"
Sounds like something I don't want to do to a microphone Ha.
"Evil" Aidy
Mörti Viventi
Zakky, I've updated my other thread with the settings I used for vocals with my SM57.
Sorry it took so long!
Sorry it took so long!
MetalJonesy
more metal, more booze!!!
just quickly slammed sum vox to a cover of an AILD tune im working on, tracked em with the 57
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/369408/AILD vox gey.mp3
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/369408/AILD vox gey.mp3
I don't see why anyone would be afraid to remove the transformer from the 57...quit being a pussy. It's not a big deal and it's extremely easy to do. You can even put it back in if you don't like the sound...but all it does is take the honk out of the 57, making it a little more flat.
For the bit about replacing the tranny for another one to turn it into somewhat of a DIY SM7...that I would be very interested in. I'll search around but in case I don't find anything I hope somebody else can shed some light on this.
~006
For the bit about replacing the tranny for another one to turn it into somewhat of a DIY SM7...that I would be very interested in. I'll search around but in case I don't find anything I hope somebody else can shed some light on this.
~006
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I've googled this to death, but so far no clips have turned up. There was a thread on G*******z a while back though. The general consensus seemed to be it smoothed out the highs whilst filling in the lows *a little*.
I had the idea of picking up a Shure Unidyne 545 (the mic that the SM57 and SM7 were based on) and throwing in the T-F tranny, to make a super Shure 57/SM7 hybrid. Fletcher at Mercenary Audio said it sounded balls though when he tried it...so I didn't. Still contemplating the tranny for my 57.
So I'm currently saying f**k it and saving for a Heil PR40 instead.
