From Create Digital Music…

Just how rugged is your microphone? Mats Stålbröst, editor of the Stockholm-based Studio, took testing to a new extreme last year. He did violence to the legendary Shure SM58 – the sub-$100, vocal dynamic mic. It was used to hammer nails. It was dropped several meters. It was frozen. It was dunked in water. It was driven over by a car. It had beer poured on it. It was placed in a microwave atop a pizza. And the thing kept on working.

Then they buried it in the ground, left it for a year, and dug it up to test again. Read the full story on CDM.

I use the SM58 all the time live, and I’ve always treated my personal SM58s like (probably better than) my children. I guess I don’t have to be so cautious now.

Tags: SM58

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