You might try the Shure beta 57 as
it has more output and better feedback rejection and sounds like a slightly
more present and beefy sounding 57 to my ears. I’ve been happy with mine.
The Betas are even more rugged than the SM57 if that’s possible. Also the
Sennheiser 409 is one my engineer friend really digs and doesn’t require
a mic stand as it hangs nicely over the front of the amp and is a large diaphragm
mic. Another possible solution is a speaker emulator like the TAD FANTA
direct box or a Hughes and Ketner red box, which would patch between the power
amp and speaker and completely eliminate the possibility of leakage of ambient
noise. I believe the Class 5, if that’s what you are getting has a
headphone out that may have a decent speaker emulator as well. You might want
to check that out as well. Bill From: Paul Richards
[mailto:paulrichard_rocks@yahoo.com]
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