Shure SM57

The Shure SM57 is a dynamic microphone.

Stewart Copeland has a Shure SM57 among his microphone collection at The Worried Rabbit (or Sacred Grove as sometimes known). He remembers using one as early as 1976 for brother Ian Copeland's vocals on a demo for "Clown's Revenge", cut onto a Revox A77 machine. The

The SM57 also typically used on the snare drum, at least for soundtrack and film scoring work during the 1980s and 1990s when Jeff Seitz worked as engineer & co-producer. Nowadays, Stewart uses the SM57 alongside the SM58 for virtually any purpose.