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<blockquote data-quote="Per SÃ¸vik" data-source="post: 83329" data-attributes="member: 1285">Re: The SM58...What used to bother me in the past about the SM58 was that I couldn&#039;t quite get the tone from it that I wanted without having to tune the PA to compensate for not having enough bands and enough parameters in the inputs, a sweeping mid just didn&#039;t do it and a four band with two parametric mids was sometimes a tad short of what I wanted, so inserting my parametric eq on the money channel and/or selecting mikes that was closer in tonality became a necessity. Now, having enough to work with in the input section to get the exact response curve, the SM58 has become a much more attractive proposition for me than it used to be, and I&#039;m buying more of them.&nbsp;It certainly will never sound like a studio condenser, but perfection is not always required or even desirable. My favourite portrait lens is a cheap three element non-coated piece of crap, but it makes for nice portraits, not perfect warts-and-all super-defined dazzling colour look-how-sharp-my-lens-is stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Per SÃ¸vik, post: 83329, member: 1285"] Re: The SM58... What used to bother me in the past about the SM58 was that I couldn't quite get the tone from it that I wanted without having to tune the PA to compensate for not having enough bands and enough parameters in the inputs, a sweeping mid just didn't do it and a four band with two parametric mids was sometimes a tad short of what I wanted, so inserting my parametric eq on the money channel and/or selecting mikes that was closer in tonality became a necessity. Now, having enough to work with in the input section to get the exact response curve, the SM58 has become a much more attractive proposition for me than it used to be, and I'm buying more of them. It certainly will never sound like a studio condenser, but perfection is not always required or even desirable. My favourite portrait lens is a cheap three element non-coated piece of crap, but it makes for nice portraits, not perfect warts-and-all super-defined dazzling colour look-how-sharp-my-lens-is stuff. [/QUOTE]

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