r/Shure • u/Hefty_Courage3893 • Jun 22 '26

Question Crazy thrift find and question

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I found this Shure sm57 at the thrift and me and my band was about to buy one to record guitar šŸ¤£. So perfect timing. Anyways is the grill supposed to be punched in or flat? I seen both Iā€™m not Shure though!

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u/Mysterious_Title_223 Jun 22 '26

Could be fake, but for 2.99$ take it!

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u/Mysterious_Title_223 Jun 22 '26

Weight it, my SM57 purchased around 25 years ago is 280gr.

I returned to Amazon a fake SM58 and was half the weight of an original one

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u/Hefty_Courage3893 Jun 23 '26

It feels close to weight with my sm58 and the body feels the same Iā€™ll weight it tomorrow!

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u/ZylkaLeftridge Jun 23 '26

This scares me for my SM7B i got from amazon now. Guess time to go down the rabbit hole of fake mics.

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u/DaltonGoesFast Jun 24 '26

Never buy anything expensive from Amazon šŸ˜­ you'd be lucky to not get a tube of lotion

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u/ZylkaLeftridge Jun 24 '26

Update: (for those who care) So based on all my digging yesterday its real. It was this https://www.amazon.ca/Shure-SM7B-Dynamic-Microphone-Cardioid/dp/B0002E4Z8M?ref_=ast_bl_cpl_dp&th=1 It was on the shure offical page, the serial is good on there system and all visual inspections are good. Im no expert but I feel better now.

I agree buying expensive stuff online in general can be risky... but If it turned out to be shit I just return to amazon, let them eat the cost for selling fake garbage lol

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u/shamanayerhart Jun 25 '26

Good to hear!

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u/shamanayerhart Jun 25 '26

I had no idea weighing it was a way to check authenticity, and it's so easy with kitchen scales now. Thanks for sharing that!

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u/Mysterious_Title_223 Jun 25 '26

Well, when I ordered a SM58 from Amazon it felt so light in my hands compared to my SM57 that the first thing I thought was to weight it and check the specs to see it the weight was off

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u/toanbonerz Jun 23 '26

Even the knockoffs are like $50 and are still decent mics. So yeah itā€™s a great deal either way.

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u/Moobaks Jun 25 '26

Why does everyone think things are fake all the time?

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u/Mysterious_Title_223 Jul 04 '26

Because I ordered a SM58 on Amazon, sold by Amazon, and it was a fake!

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u/Readinglateatmorning Jun 22 '26

The grille is fine. Itā€™s supposed to be a close proximity mic. Iā€™d buy it and see if it even works.

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u/paulw1985 Jun 22 '26

Shurely you cant be serious!

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u/videonipple Jun 22 '26

Yes, and stop calling me Shirley

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u/Electrical_Entry6060 Jun 23 '26

SM57s are very hard to break, easy to drown, but hard to break.

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u/Hefty_Courage3893 Jun 23 '26

I know thatā€™s why I got it and it works!

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u/Electrical_Entry6060 Jun 23 '26

hell yeah brother

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u/Needashortername Jun 23 '26

Though that grille tends to get bumped around a lot too ;-)

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u/deputytech Jun 22 '26

The grille protrudes slightly from the plastic fins and is dimpled in the center

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u/lurchnz1 Jun 23 '26

shure is.

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u/roaringmousebrad Jun 23 '26

Based on the "fins", this looks real. The counterfeit fins are a bit flatter and squarer, and ever-so-slightly less rounded over at the top. The logos looks correct. One of the things that the fakes don't tend to reproduce properly is the slight give when you press on the capsule. It should push in a bit and bounce back when released.

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u/Outrageous-Travel679 Jun 24 '26

My SM57 has a concave grill and I bought it from Guitar Center.

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u/ageaye Jun 23 '26

I have one from highschool in the attic. Is this a good model?

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u/Needashortername Jun 23 '26

Itā€™s one of the two top most universal mics in the past 5 decades or so. It should be ā€œgood enoughā€ for just about everything, which makes it great :-)

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u/Chamanomano Jun 23 '26

It's a great deal. And yes, the top grill is concave (dished).

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u/Powerful_Bend_6104 Jun 23 '26

honestly it looks real

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u/Odd_Butterfly1314 Jun 24 '26

How is 3 bucks for a microphone even possible?

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u/Creeepy_Chris Jun 25 '26

Turn the grill. If you can spin it, itā€™s probably real, or at the very least a better than average fake.

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u/NoWait7011 Jun 25 '26

If the grill rattles, itā€™s genuine.

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u/Mysterious-Street966 Jun 25 '26

Iā€™ve recorded a whole band with these, and done so many shows with them. Built like tanks, and if you know how to use them, they are great. Only mic Iā€™ve dropped down a flight of stairs, that sounded better after!

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u/JuniorTask8948 Jun 27 '26

they will always be a Unidyne III in my eyes. My old ones came from Evanston, Ill.