[Scott Dorsey]

Roger Norman wrote:
Yep. One only has to hook up a 57 with a Hardy M1 with Jensen 990s to find
an amazing microphone hidden deep in the 57. I don't know, but I believe
Mark may have decided to go after a superb 57 sound due to the fact that
most Mackie products don't do the mic justice. For a small fee, McQ makes
the 57 viable in a lot of studio and live situations. I don't know how
Shure did it what with most early 57s being pumped into Shure Vocalmasters
and little Bogens, but the mic certainly has more soul than most people will
know with the average mic pre these days.

Those Vocalmasters were pretty crappy, but they presented the SM-57 with
about the right load that they expect.... something around 600 ohms and
slightly inductive. Folks forget that everything, even the crappiest
equipment from that era, all used input transformers. That makes a big
difference with the SM-57.
--scott
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