SM57 mod
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i used the modded 57 in the following situation:
ampeg b-25 with a green day pbass model. into a marshall 4x12, mic'd with the 57 modded, into a neve 1064, into a dbx 160SL. total success. aftr we tracked that, we mixed the song. the bass fit in absolutely beautifully! i'm totally using this modded 57 on everything!
ampeg b-25 with a green day pbass model. into a marshall 4x12, mic'd with the 57 modded, into a neve 1064, into a dbx 160SL. total success. aftr we tracked that, we mixed the song. the bass fit in absolutely beautifully! i'm totally using this modded 57 on everything!
I'm pretty sure it would! If you want to put some circuit protection, you could run the signal through some cap's, that would certainly change the sound too, anywhere from "much worse" to "warmer and deeper," (maybe) depending on what type of cap you used. This is crazyness in my opinion, I'd just be careful around the ol' +48 switch.
...If you want a really funky way to do it, put some diodes in to stop the DC. This should also intoduce a fair bit of distortion - diode clipping is the basis for most fuzz/overdrive/whatever boxes....
...If you want a really funky way to do it, put some diodes in to stop the DC. This should also intoduce a fair bit of distortion - diode clipping is the basis for most fuzz/overdrive/whatever boxes....
Today I was salvaging the transformer from a '57 for another project, I found rather than boiling it in a pan of water, after removing the capsule and XLR, I put it in the oven on a piece of foil for 15 minutes at the lowest setting the oven had, 150 degrees Farenheit, and the transformer just pulled out gently without any mucking about with drill bits, and you can just turn the body of the mic upside down and clean the glue out with a rag.
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Shure made two transformerless versions of the 57... one is the DY45G. It has the black/silver colors of a 545. The other is the sm77. They used aluminum instead of copper for the voice coil, so they could have more windings without adding weight, to make up for the lost input from the lack of transformer.
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