mac
Well-known member
Greetings all,
Last year I got stuck with four SM58 fakes from a FeeBay purchase, and have been searching the forum for info on capsule replacements. I have read with interest all the information here about transformer replacements, upgrades, etc - loved CJ's disection of an output trannie etc. I didnt know wether to resurrect one of those old threads or start a new one???
Basically I refuse to resell them and have them out there contaminating the market or anything, so I stuck them at the back of my shelves, and assumed they were destined to be crab pot anchors or something. The other day after using some genuine 58's I thought maybe I need to do something useful with these things. My objective is that rather than just chuck them out, the chassis, bodies and grills etc are perfect - and just need a decent capsule.
There are no transformers in them - our cunning Chinese friends had an old small transformer glued into place to look the part - but the wires sailed right past it!!!
I pulled them to bits, bashed the glue and fake trafo out and rewired the capsule transformerless to the xlr - but they sound worse than the mic on my laptop.
So the question is, has anyone seen any replacement dynamic capsules (or condenser for that matter) that would fit and make a wolf in a sheeps clothing??
I reckon it would be cool to have ordinary sm58 skins hiding something much nicer sounding under the hood - so to speak....
Mac.
Last year I got stuck with four SM58 fakes from a FeeBay purchase, and have been searching the forum for info on capsule replacements. I have read with interest all the information here about transformer replacements, upgrades, etc - loved CJ's disection of an output trannie etc. I didnt know wether to resurrect one of those old threads or start a new one???
Basically I refuse to resell them and have them out there contaminating the market or anything, so I stuck them at the back of my shelves, and assumed they were destined to be crab pot anchors or something. The other day after using some genuine 58's I thought maybe I need to do something useful with these things. My objective is that rather than just chuck them out, the chassis, bodies and grills etc are perfect - and just need a decent capsule.
There are no transformers in them - our cunning Chinese friends had an old small transformer glued into place to look the part - but the wires sailed right past it!!!
I pulled them to bits, bashed the glue and fake trafo out and rewired the capsule transformerless to the xlr - but they sound worse than the mic on my laptop.
So the question is, has anyone seen any replacement dynamic capsules (or condenser for that matter) that would fit and make a wolf in a sheeps clothing??
I reckon it would be cool to have ordinary sm58 skins hiding something much nicer sounding under the hood - so to speak....
Mac.