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Some shots of the BYOC OD2 I just made for a friend. It's a pretty nice pedal, cool to have a TS and a boost in a small box like that. Anyone built anything new lately or have any projects planned?

[quote name='P-T-P' post='922379' date='Aug 12 2010, 09:49 AM']Found it... [i]"That brings up another question that comes up all the time. What’s the real difference between an SM57 and an SM58? There are actually a fair number of myths and misconceptions about what the difference really is. "The basic difference is the grille. The other parts -- the diaphragm and voice coil combination, the magnet, the transformer that’s in the handle, the handle itself, the closing ring that surrounds the cartridge – are identical. "In the SM58, the ball grille with the foam lining provides an extra degree of pop protection and wind protection. The SM57 has a much more compact grille arrangement that doesn’t provide nearly as much protection against blast or wind. But the basic frequency response and polar patterns are almost identical – there is only a slight difference in high frequencies where the shape of the grille starts to affect the response. But that probably doesn’t kick in until 13, 14 or 15 kHz – something like that."[/i] From here [url="http://www.shurenotes.com/issue30/article.htm"]http://www.shurenotes.com/issue30/article.htm[/url][/quote] I've read this, in fact it was talking about this article which prompted us to make this video, from what we found they're very similar but the 58 seems a bit warmer and the 57 has a bit more crispness to it.

Yeah I generally prefer the sound of condenser microphones for acoustic guitars and vocals and SM57s for snares and electric guitars. This video is just made to show the difference between these two microphones so people can see the difference if they're interested in one but not sure which. It's intended to be aimed at people looking for a decent first microphone really rather than people with a bit more recording experience and a decent microphone collection. Thanks for you're input though.

Here's a link to a video I helped make comparing the Shure SM57 and SM58 microphones for recording acoustic guitar. Should be helpful if you are purchasing a microphone to record acoustic guitar with and want to know the difference between them. There will be a comparison using electric guitar, bass guitar and a snare drum soon so feel free to subscribe if you are interested in seeing them. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcqLy73Z8Jk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcqLy73Z8Jk[/url]