After cleaning the SM59 shines its beauty.
Foam surround had disintegrated. It was removed.
Made in USA.
First experience, fist time listening to the SM59 in the Pleiades lab.
What a microphone!
Possibly one of the best microphones ever made on earth.
The Pleiades (130Ω,40mH) inline passive gentle slope high pass filter was connected to compensate the proximity effect bass heaviness, equal loudness curves bass heaviness, voice effort curves bass heaviness. [Lowe, Morgan], [Hilliard]
(So just a 130Ω resistor in series with a 40mH inductor and total connected across mic's voice coil or output terminal.)
The sound is amazing, no coloration, no s problem, no p problems, no handling noise. Natural. Can't be described how natural in words. Like a ribbon microphone properly compensated for no bass heaviness.
No tendency for acoustic feedback showing the extremely flat frequency response of this microphone.
The neumatic suspension is a marvel of engineering virtually eliminating handling noise.
Low output. With a world class battery electron tube mic pre booster such as the Pleiades V6 there should not be any low level or hiss problem.
Signal path:
male singing voice at high register - Shure SM59 at 2-3 in - Pleiades (130Ω,40mH) filter - Sony TC-D5 Pro as preamp, mono mode - Sennheiser HD 580 monitoring headphones - Listener's (singer's) ear, brain
References:
Sound picture recording and reproducing Characteristcs (flat frequency response from producer's brain to listener's brain) - D. P. Lowe, K. F. Morgan - Jorunal of the society of motion picture engineers
A brief history of early motion picture sound recording and reproducing practice - John F. Hilliard - Journal of the society of audio engineering - vol33 - no4 - 1985 April
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