My falling out with the 57 came before that.. I had borrowed some 421søøøøøøø wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:40 pmI don’t have much problem with a 57. I like them just fine on snare drum or distorted guitar cab (usually in combination with something else).
For awhile I used the M201 on snare top sometimes but have kind of drifted away from it lately.
I remember in the early ‘00s Steve Albini’s studio had a website with descriptions of all the microphones, and the description of the M201 said something like “what a SM57 would be like if it were actually a microphone” or something acerbic along those lines.
Correlation doesn’t equal causation, but almost exactly at that time a lot of Internet forum posters suddenly loved the M201 (which I’d never heard of before) and hated the SM57.
I was definitely one of them! But in hindsight that was a silly way for me to form an opinion about a microphone—it wasn’t based on impressions formed from actual long-term use, but rather on a kind of “appeal to authority.”
Nowadays I’m a bit more likely to use a 57 than an m201
to mic up toms, and put one on a 412 next to a 57 to record some punk/metal.
and it just blew the shit out of the 57.
I didnt notice the m201 love until the last few years. And really it seems to be only
a handful of people who gravitate towards it over the 57.
Oh the quote is still on the Electric Audio website haha.. I generally am at odds
with Albini with his Anti-digital tape lust, and luddite work flow preferences
but I just laughed at his descriptions for the 57 and 201.