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Default What's this live vocal mic? (Paul McCartney 1976)

slinkp wrote:
It's familiar from various live acts of the time, and has a distinctive housing, but I've never known what it is:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...rt%2C_1976.jpg


It's a 548. Pretty much like an SM57 but with better gain before feedback.

Not sure because he has a tendency to wrap his hand around the business end, but Plant may have used the same mic in "The Song Remains the Same":
https://screenmusings.org/movie/dvd/...e-Same-349.jpg


Also looks like a 548. It was the tightest microphone you could buy
for a short period of time before it was eclipsed by the 589.
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