Sounds natural and can work on about any sound. It's not the best for everything nor the worst for anything, but the most versatile of any mic I have ever seen and at a good price.

Anybody remember Leslie Tone Cabinets? If you play through one, you know you gotta keep up with the guitar amps. It's easy; mic the top and bottom with SM57s. You'll get the pure sound of those rotors moving that air, only real loud. Beautiful!

I've been working with this mic since my days as a roadie/historian with my original audio company in Lompoc, California, back in the mid 70s. Back then, this model delivered on premium reproduction, took serious beatings, and remarkably came back for more! Now that the company has been re-established in Vermont, we've bought the new models. It's great to see that Shure has not changed it's specs after all these years.

I purchased this mic and started to record with it right away. It is everything I imagined it to be and more. I recorded 3 different things with it. The guitar tracks, the bass track, and the vocal track all with this mic. The vocals could have been better, but then it is an instrument mic. The guitar and bass tracks, however, were superb, and gave me an incredible recording onto my friends Fostex mr-8. This is a very versatile mic, fairly inexpensive, and for the money I don't think you could beat it

I own two SM-57's for studio and live work. My recording engineer settles for nothing less than this Shure model. Crisp acoustic guitar pick-up is excellent since I am against "electrifying" my pristine Gibson AJ acoustic. For pick-up on my Vox tube amps, the recording reproduction makes my Les Pauls, SG, and Strat TRUE sounding with absolutely no background noise. We mic the drums with SM-57's as well; REALLY PICKS UP THE SNARE SOMETHING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!