Charlie wrote:There are plenty of better mics in a studio situation but for gigs you can't go past 58s for vocal mics. They sound good and you can drop onto concrete from six foot in the air and they still work. Most instrumentalists I know prefer 57s but my current sax player also likes to play through a 58.
Yes, I can easily pass them over every night I take the stage. I bring mics to sound gigs and sound 10x better than with 58s and I'll toss an e609 in front of my amp every day and leave the 57 in my gig bag next the 58 both as back-ups. I can guarantee you that for every 4 vocalists you work at least 1 will do better with another mic in a similar price range. Take the Senn 835 for example. VERY good for both male and female vocals where they sound ok with 58s but something is missing. There are some Audix that will fall under that umbrella too!
I think our ears are used to the 58 soundcurve and how vocals sound with them.
mijknahs wrote:strumminsix wrote:Now I'm completely satisfied and loving the e935 & e945 in EVERY room.
If you had to pick between them, which one? e935 or e945? What's the diff?
e935=cardiod
e945=supercardiod
they sound the same on their own but the diffs come into play with the room and setup --> inherent to the cardiod vs super thing
cardiod = wider pickup area, your work it nicely close, far, etc, picks up from the front sides, will pickup your voice, your amp, the drummer, etc, but NOT the monitor directly behind it
supercardiod = tight pickup area, you are mostly either on it > background > off, rejects side noice, picks up only the front and a specific spot directly behind so WILL pickup the monitor IF directly behind and cause feedback.
So basically, I pick the mic by whichever room I'm playing and what the setup is.