Should I buy my friends SM57?

[AG]

My mate has offered me his SM57 for £30, and I need some people to tell me to buy it.

£30 is a steal, and It's in really good condition, but I'm not sure I need a mic this good.

I was gonna spend £20 on a pack of three Behinger mic's for home recording, and I think getting the uber tough SM57 might be a little overkill.

I'm gonna get the Behringer MIC200 preamp for it...

Opinions?

[airborne50caliber]

Mic200 and sm57 is a really good cople. I have the s57 and mic100, I can tell you it works the wonders for a variety of studio and live applications. It is a very good mic, you'll always use it, I'd say get it.

/Is drunk, how was my explanaion?

[AG]

Pretty good.

I heard the SM57 was pretty bad for vocals, I'm not a vocal guy, but I'd like to use it every now and again for vocals.


You've got a Condenser right? how the MIC100 work with it? is it any good?

[moaner]

go for it.

when people say "its pretty bad for vocals", they're usually not thinking in terms of just dynamics.

[airborne50caliber]

I've used the rode nt-1a but aint actually got condensers. the mic100 works wel, with them rpvodes phantom powrr and is tube so very nice. ****. will explain ebtter tomorow

[Moseph]

My mate has offered me his SM57 for £30, and I need some people to tell me to buy it.

£30 is a steal, and It's in really good condition, but I'm not sure I need a mic this good.

I was gonna spend £20 on a pack of three Behinger mic's for home recording, and I think getting the uber tough SM57 might be a little overkill.

I'm gonna get the Behringer MIC200 preamp for it...

Opinions?


Yes. Behringer does not make a mic as good the SM57. Period.

They aren't as sturdy, and they don't sound as good.

[Knifeboy]

Buy it.. Definately
I have the SM58, and even though I keep dropping it on the floor and stomp on it by accident all the time (I'm an idiot, I know), it still works and looks almost like it's new.. hehe.. It's sturdy as ****

[airborne50caliber]

Yeah exactly, same with the 57. When I come in from the top with it its always unstable coz of the **** mic stand and often the whole thing falls but the mic doesen't give a ****.

[jurialmunkey]

SM57 are pretty much the standard benchmark studio/live general purpose instrument mic. Stick it in front of a amp/quad off-axis - beautiful. Stick it on a snare and you're doing exactly the same thing that about 95% of engineers do. Sturdy as f.ck too.

BTW... a SM57 is in all regards the same as an SM58... the 58 just has a different grill/cover/top which is designed to be more practical for vox rather than instruments.

NEVER NEVER NEVER buy those crap behringer products!!! what is wrong with you people... BEHRINGER SUK BALLS! Cheap junk. Period.

Buy the 57... 57's here (Australia) cost between AUS$180 and AUS$275 to buy new... you have a bargain onyour hands.

[himynameistweek]

NEVER NEVER NEVER buy those crap behringer products!!! what is wrong with you people... BEHRINGER SUK BALLS! Cheap junk. Period.
SEREASLIE! TEHY SUK SOOO BED! BCUZ THEY COST SO CHEAP LOLOLOLOLZ
seriously. behringer owns your face.
i assume you're talking about the xm8500, in which case i say go for that. you have a choice between a- one high quality mic, or b- 3 high quality mics. i do recall seeing a cheaper 3 pack of behringer mics though, and i haven't tried those ones, so i can't say if that's the case.

[moaner]

behringer suck about as much as getting free money. Although their gear is certaintly not the best, its a lot better than most other stuff in the same price range.

[airborne50caliber]

NEVER NEVER NEVER buy those crap behringer products!!! what is wrong with you people... BEHRINGER SUK BALLS! Cheap junk. Period.

I don't see how you can make some educated comments on shure and then come green jelly out your *** on behringer. Behringer products are excellent for the price range, and if you're working in a cheap demo studio or live application they are perhaps the best choice of product you can make.

[moaner]

there was have proof that new users are certaintly not always the "n00bs" around here...

can't even spell suck.

[Die Again]

I just got a seinhieser* e835,heard it was better than the sm58.....And you know whaat....I dont even know yet! cuz my band mates live in another city and havent gone to try it out yet.i need to jam with some phx kids or ****as in the area.:(

[AG]

/me is going to buy the SM57

I'm also gonna get the MIC200.

I just need to find some idiot selling a decent condenser very cheap now :naughty:

[airborne50caliber]

/me is going to buy the SM57

I'm also gonna get the MIC200.


you're about to make an excellent invenstment :lol: has both (mic100 actually but yeh)

[AG]

/update


So I bought the 57 of him, I'm pleased with it. He didn't have the little bag it came in, so he went out and bought me a brand new mic cable, for some reason.

So, in summary, I bought an SM57 and new cable for £30. Man does that own.

[airborne50caliber]

/update


So I bought the 57 of him, I'm pleased with it. He didn't have the little bag it came in, so he went out and bought me a brand new mic cable, for some reason.

So, in summary, I bought an SM57 and new cable for £30. Man does that own.


yeeeeep

[Moseph]

behringer suck about as much as getting free money. Although their gear is certaintly not the best, its a lot better than most other stuff in the same price range.


There is nothing else in Behringer's price range. That's why everyone here owns Behringer gear. They do pretty well with passive circuitry, but with basically everything else, you need to know that you're buying something that's

a) going to sound completely sterile or
b) going to break prematurely compared to any other gear

I say it's good stuff to buy if you're not sure you want to get into recording. It's not a good investment for live gear. Once you know you're sticking w/ recording, take the plunge and get something one or two price ranges up. It's more robust, both sonically and physically. As for Behringer products, stick w/ DI boxes, headphones amps, and patch bays.

[airborne50caliber]

There is nothing else in Behringer's price range. That's why everyone here owns Behringer gear. They do pretty well with passive circuitry, but with basically everything else, you need to know that you're buying something that's

a) going to sound completely sterile or
b) going to break prematurely compared to any other gear

I say it's good stuff to buy if you're not sure you want to get into recording. It's not a good investment for live gear. Once you know you're sticking w/ recording, take the plunge and get something one or two price ranges up. It's more robust, both sonically and physically. As for Behringer products, stick w/ DI boxes, headphones amps, and patch bays.

I have no issues with my composer.

[moaner]

I have no issues with my v-amp 2.

Ask Aes about his virtualizer pro, he's happy to use it in his thousands of dollars rig. And the FCB1010 is reagrded as one of the best midi controllers around among guitarists/bassists etc.

[airborne50caliber]

I have no issues with my v-amp 2.

Ask Aes about his virtualizer pro, he's happy to use it in his thousands of dollars rig. And the FCB1010 is reagrded as one of the best midi controllers around among guitarists/bassists etc.

Exactly. Behringer can be perfectly accpetable quality equipment

[Knifeboy]

So, in summary, I bought an SM57 and new cable for £30. Man does that own.

The cable alone costs £10 around these here parts :(

[AG]

I think that's how much it cost him. And I was gonna have to get an XLR>XLR cable anywhoos.

[Moseph]

I have no issues with my v-amp 2.

Ask Aes about his virtualizer pro, he's happy to use it in his thousands of dollars rig. And the FCB1010 is reagrded as one of the best midi controllers around among guitarists/bassists etc.


MIDI controllers and Control Surfaces count towards the sorts of things that I'm saying do count as being worth the risk of inferior quality. They don't do anything to your audio quality, they just send commands. In that case, anything that works is equally usable as anything else that works, and the difference is preference in controller.

As for the virtualizer, that's shaky stuff as well. They use the same DSP engine in their UB series effects processing, and in every instance I've seen with that engine, it's noisy as hell. One of the things I probably should say more often on this particular board is that Behringer has a horrible reputation for making inconsistent, fragile to the point of disposable, sterile gear.

I compared the V-AMP to my Digitech RP200a, and found the Digitech to have less problems w/ noise and better tone shaping, which really says more about the V-AMP than anything else.

The IMPs in my mixer are very sterile sounding. I compared a SP C-1 to my MXL 990 using them and the results were fairly blah with both. Using a Yamaha 02R (the old model) I could not only detect the differences in the mics, but also began to understand the price differences between them.


I'm not dissing Behringer, because I fully intend to goto them for headphone amps, control surfaces, patch bays, and DI boxes for the rest of my life. But I say leave the transducers, DSP, instruments, tone-shaping, and pre amps to companies that are more concerned with usable and good-sounding gear than they are with cutting costs.

PS: This doesn't even consider the patent-breach allegations against the company.