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Default Vintage Shure 55c, trouble getting good sound quality

On Dec 31, 4:24 pm, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
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Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. It's just a crummy old mic. It's
beautiful though so I took it today to music repair man to see about
updating the internal mic parts. I know it will no longer be a
vintage mic, but a decent mic in that chrome frame is all i really
want anyway, and I don't really intend to resell it.


It won't be.

You can put an SM-57 capsule behind that grille, and what you will get
won't have anything to do with the SM-57 pattern. The grille is going
to screw up any element you put behind it.

There is a reason modern microphones don't look like that, and it's not
just style.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."


What if used a bullet microphone, like the Shure 520DX? It also has a
grill. I'm looking for average (but modern) sound, not top of the
line. Do you think it's possible?