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Product Details
Model: | Unidyne III SM57 | Brand: | Shure | Country/Region of Manufacture: | United States |
Type: | Vintage Microphone |
Product Description
It is all original, it works perfectly, and it sounds unbelievable!
As the Photos show, it is in superb/vintage excellent cosmetic condition.
Please note that on Photo (1) there appears to be a shiny section on the bottom of the grille (under the i of the word Unidyne), but that is just a reflection of the underlying capsule, not a flaw.
What the Photos dont show, it is in superb sonic condition as well :)
Please note that if you dont care if a USA Unidyne III SM57 truly sounds better than a Mexican made SM57, then this is not the Mic for you.
A Little History Lesson
The Shure Model 545 was pretty successful because of its great sound and its ground-breaking end-address capsule. Prior to the 545, microphones were more prone to feedback and less accommodating to close-miking because the capsule didn’t get right up against the sound source. This allowed more ambient noise to enter the recording. The 545 found itself in a lot of US studios, again because of it’s low price and superior rejection. The Model 545 was most notably used on Brian Wilson’s voice on a little album called Pet Sounds to track his voice separately while recording vocals shoulder-to-shoulder with the Beach Boys.
Meanwhile, back at Shure Brothers Incorporated, the crazy engineers kept trying to improve upon the 545. Television was becoming a big thing, so they decided they would build a mic for this demographic.
They already had an excellent capsule, but they needed a microphone casing that would withstand the rigors of TV studios. So they did what any 11-year-old child would do and tried out their designs by cooking them, dropping them, and immersing them in salt water. Once they had a superhero microphone that survived the tests, they gave its body (same as 545) a non-reflective coating for the cameras, and removed the on-and-off switch (you don’t want pesky talent accidentally turning off their mics). In 1965, when the uncreative naming people at Shure affixed an SM to the model name to indicate that it was a studio microphone, they were referring to TV studios.
Eventually word of this microphone’s infamous durability traveled into the burgeoning live sound industry, and techs starting bring along these trusty little mics. Studio engineers loved them too, not only because they sounded good, but also because they had extremely high SPL ratings. This meant that they could use these mics to get the sound that was becoming increasingly popular: close miking.
In 1985 the manufacture of the SM57 moved to Shure’s Mexican Facility in Juarez, Mexico and adios to the USA Shure SM57.
There you have it: the indisputable history of the Shure SM57.
Shure claims that the Mexican made SM57s has no major design changes.
That said, some engineers feel differently:
Jim Williams: The current crop of Mexican 57s sound nothing like the classic American made Unidyne III models. Those older ones, if you can find a clean one, have much better top end clarity than the Mexican 57’s. The Mexican models sound nasal next to a clean Unidyne III model.
The reason for this is most likely that the dies and tools used to create the mics initially wore out and were replaced, and the diaphragm pieces created by the new tools do not match the vintage pieces. Despite the company’s position that the design has not changed, the sense of most people on the Message Boards is that the USA made SM57s sound better and I agree.
Included is the Unidyne III SM57 and the original Mic Clip. Please note that the Mic Clip is not shown, but Ill take a Photo tomorrow and will add it to the current Photos (its night now, and I always take the Photos under sunlight to show more detail).
I will GUARANTY that one year from now, five years from now, ten years from now, this Mic will only go up in value, and a Mexican Made SM57 will not, and thats because
THEY AINT MAKING ANY MORE OF THEM LIKE THIS!!!!!
Shipping will be $10.00, and Ill ship it fully insured.
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