It just seems to me that the general quality has decreased over the years, and I wonder just how much of that is attributable to the wearing of tools over the years. One guy I knew had seven of 'em, and had them labeled with 7 different names (as if they were the seven dwarfs) 'Beefy', 'Crispy', 'Bassy', etc. I remember (back in the '70s, when dinosaurs roamed the earth) going through a pile of '57s before a show with a pair of headphones, and picking out the ones that would be used for different instruments.

The truth is that there's a whole lotta 'luck of the draw' when ya grab a '57. Of course, this advantage has been lost over time (for obvious reasons). The only real advantage to the old ones (that I can see) is that when they were new, they were more consistent from unit to unit.

I've seldom found two 'fiftysevenesque' mics close enough to one another in timber to actually be called a bona fide 'matched pair'! It's a shame that people are viewing them as 'vintage', when IMO, they are and will always just be 'used'. Go to System Preferences Startup Disk and select your new cloned volume to be the startup disk Run your cloning application and clone your system to the external disk. The prices on Unidyne III era Shures have gotten a bit absurd. 'This was the main source for the sonic changes in the mics.'. ' As far as I know, old stampers and dies are still being used. If you know about record pressing, stampers wear out and need to be changed regularly. He told me no changes were instituted, but original stampers and dies were sent down to Juarez. I called a shure engineer I knew for an explanation. The tuning point for me was when when I caught this post on GearSlutz:įrom Jim Williams: 'I noticed the sonic changes on these back in 1990. I finally decided that the WEAR on those tools (after making so many capsules over the years) was the explanation for what folks are hearing from the different examples. Discover our collection of unique brand wallpapers available to help you create the look you want in any room. The early '57s (if not beat up over the years) seem to be more consistent from mic to mic. DecoratorsBest has the widest and finest collection of blue striped wallpapers. I think it all comes down to the degradation of the tooling used to manufacture them all: However, I think I know what's REALLY at play here: Shure claims that when they changed the labels on the '57s (to abandon the 'Unidyne III' designation), nothing changed but the label (and I think this may actually be correct). But a lot of folks think that the original '57s (with the 'Unidyne II' designation) still sound pretty close to the 545s. The body was also a bit different, of course. The rest of the build was a bit different from the '57s, in that they had an on/off switch, and selectable impedance (and so also a different transformer). I believe the capsules themselves were run on the same assembly line as the later (original) SM57s (the ones still having the 'Unidyne III' demarcation). Anyone tried these? According to Shure, the 545 was the 'Predecessor to the SM57'.

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