Record an ENTIRE song with a SHURE SM58? 

Here's a link to just the song, "Can't Relate": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cqXMctjfq6A.html

This video is a work of art, and such an important lesson everyone needs to learn. Nobody cares about what gear made a song - they just care that the song is something they want to listen to. I'm guilty of owning 800 dollar microphones, but recorded my first two albums - my best work - with a 50 dollar mic... And it sounds great. Thanks for the video. The song is really good too!

came for the production, stayed for the music. Excellent.

Best advice I ever got was from a former instructor who was a wizard at stadium sized live sound. He said, "it is not the gear that matters but who is behind the gear that matters most."

Great song and great advice. I'm old and old school. I'm just starting out getting into home recording and have been needing to streamline my approach since I don't have an unlimited cash flow to put into a studio. So your advice is well taken about approaching a project rather than getting hung up on the amount of equipment we have. I love the song you created. I'm not critiquing it in anyway, but when I was listening to it, I felt a few places could have been accented with some simple background vocals. But no matter what, the piece feels complete and inspiring at the same time. It's got a haunting melody that makes a fellow musician want to sit in and jam along. Once again thanks for the perspective and information. Best wishes on your continued music.

Wow...great job! The Shins comes to mind when hearing this song.

Whenever I fell like changing my sm58 with a condenser...I always come back to this video for inspiration...❤

cool song, reminds me of Grandaddy a little bit (Pavement, too). Very inspiring video! As a proud SM58 owner I just might put it into work the same way you did :)

Great songs yield great recordings!

such a great documentation of this process and the song is so good!

This was so inspiring! I enjoyed this video a lot, and I appreciate the work you put into both the video and song production.

So nice to see how limitations are enabling creativity!

Reve. your commitment to this was awesome! love it!

Thanks for this. YT algorithms amaze me every so often. For a few months now, I've been getting back to simplicity as multitracking plain burns me out. We're talking a year of recovery after doing a CD project. How to get back the joy and make it simple. So I saw a Tascam DR-10X on clearance and bought one. Connected it to a dynamic mic, set it in the middle of the room and played one of my tunes. Brought it to the PC, trimmed it up, did a little EQ, compression and reverb with delay to promote it to stereo. Not bad at all. I've since picked up a fethead and fethead phantom, and an XVive P1 phantom power unit. Dozens of tests to find the best position and finally enjoying recording again. Of course just an acoustic guitar and vocal. What's most appreciated, is it forces me to work up a good take and not rely on multitracking to cut and paste a composite track from half a dozen takes. At 68, no dreams of albums or any of that - just recording my tunes for friends and my kids - to leave to them. Still have to figure out the post process - probably Har-Bal and Synthetic space after a few minutes in Reaper or Audacity. Thankfully, my friends are all retired old farts too - and enjoy the goofy stuff - warts and all ... and the kids remember me singing them to sleep at the side of their beds. Lets me get away with stuff I'd never have done at a paid gig. Nice to pass the age where there's no more need of pretense / perfection. And at my age, my favorite LPs in the early 60's were all mono. So why not? You got a nice sound on that recording - thanks for the affirmation and encouragement!

So glad I got back to your channel! I love this video so much, really shows what one can do with just limited means. For me personally, I always find that I write most of my songs just on an acoustic guitar or even without any instrument, going on a bike trip or a nice walk. When producing I always want to fit the original idea best and emphasise what made me like it in the first place. Oh and that micing technique for the drums is super cool! I don't play drums and thus don't have a drum kit, but micing one always seemed so complicated and expensive, with all those microphones. And sure, it doesn't sound as good as professionally miced, but it's totally listenable and supports the song so well!

I’ve gotten to the point where I only use a 58 to record vocals in my home studio setup because condensers pick up EVERYTHING! Which is very undesirable in a room that isn’t soundproof or acoustically treated.

You're incredibly talented!

I love this! What a tune and vibe.

Awesome video! Thank you so much!

Great tutorial and awesome song!!

Brilliant lesson, and lovely song too. Thanks for sharing this.

Great video . The shure sm58 is such a legend .. I love my sm58 as well . I like the warm, natural, clear and full sound that is has. Other mics are to sharp and bright .

The SM58 has a great "personality". It's both smooth and also has a nice grit to it. Those are opposites but it manages to capture both. Yeah, I've been microphone video binge watching the past 2 weeks. 😆

The sound of the vocal is awesome !

What a great video! Thanks for posting.

Amazing! I loved it. God bless you. ❤

This is amazing and inspiring!

Thanks. Cool advice for someone thinking about starting to record my rudimentary playing and daunted by the gear thinking.

Great Job! the song is awesome and sounds great ...very inspiring

This fits perfectly with the kind of music I like. I really admire the challenge taken and the results speak for themselves.

So good! Really nicely done and great finished song!

Freaking awesome !! and incredibly inspiring Keep it up

I've been testing out this idea all my life except for a brief stint with an entry level condenser mic just to try it out. I understood the difference, the condenser mic was nice in some ways but I went back to the SM58. I love that sound and I know how to use it for every instrument, including guitar. It's so beautifully simple. Just use the space to dial in the sound you want.

Cool stuff man. Just subscribed. Looking forward to watching more!

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing ✌🏻

The 2/4 time signature bars at the end of the hook are absolutely awesome. Noice!

Well done! Great video and the song turned out great

came out sick!

Great song and the sound is really good

Nice job. Can't go wrong with a 58. Sounds great. Thanks for this.

This is killer, nice work!

Wow what a voice man, You sound like Bono! Beautiful voice, keep up!

that song was so incredibly good. put that shit on itunes/spotify!!!

Realy cool song! I like the time changes and howall instruments comes together with vocal.

Well done my friend, That's a really great tune too. And I like like the fact that your goal was to keep it simple but good to use not the suer top of the line equiptment but good time tested stuff like the SM58. I have to say I get caught up in want ing the best stuff when I really don't have any recording experience. So this time I desided to make an at home studio I have been buying small but good stuff for a fraction of the money I had into my last studio and I just need to do the tutorials on my DAW and its not aiming lower the music I love the most is Relativly not complicated music. Anyway, I noticed several years ago one day watching that John Lennon Concert from the early 70"s I said wait John is singing through a Sure SM-58 live and it sounds as good as the Condencer micshe used in the studio. I think we have to keep things in perspective. Cool song again. I'm going to go to it myself today you moved me to action.

Great job!

this is cool showing that there's ways to work with just only a sm58. there's a billion ways to make a track therefore an album keep recording freinds

Nice video Rêve! Very cool. Totally agree with you, it easy to think we need all this gear and a complex set up, but I've found that just a simple set up works just fine. I've recorded almost a whole album using only my AT2035.

Man you deserve a million subs🙏

This is neat! Absolutely true, skill and experience makes up for gear. Imagine what both at power level 9000 could do! On a side note for those struggling with plosives, somethimg that really helped me cut down on this was slightly turning my neck away from the diaphragm of the mic, when using plosives. Another amazing tip that helped me is to be prepared to take yourself away from the mic a bit when using loud psrts of vocals, or record those separtely, with a lower input volume. Hope this all helps! -Lou Blacksail ~ Lyres of Ur ~

Hey Mate, Yamaha has the AG-06 USB mixer for just over $200. 2 mic channels with good preamps and 4 line level inputs. Great monitoring for playback recording where you can easily adjust both the playback and headphone mix (even the RodeCaster can't do this). I've used one for many years. It also has effects like reverb etc and compression, and you can even have the reverb on while singing etc and not have it record. There's also a loopback feature whereby you can record anything playing on your PC. A magic little mixer.

nice, well done man!

Great job dude! new sub

I needed this video.. thank you sm

I've gotta say the drums sounded excellent. The whole song did, but the drums stood out for me 👍

Love this dude!

Songs sounds much better then the video looks! Really like the lofi drums. Nice technique. Thx. Just got 2 beta 58as for the price of a used sm58. Lets see…

🙏👍👍🤘🤘Thanks for sharing your great wisdom and knowledge🤩😍🤘🤘 from a bedroom rocker🙏

Sometimes I record with whatever I have accessible late at night, and I alwas like that take/takes the best as it has that emotion.

Great lesson.

This sounds awesome! But- there’s not a lot of dynamic change going on, the whole song stays consistently at one level- how would you recommend bringing in and taking out parts to fatten it up, mix-wise?

great video

i genuinely want to add this song to my playlist

Great song!

Thanks for this.

Great song ✌️❤️

that was great i really enjoyed that great song

You should have done it with the Lauten Audio LS-208, one mic for everything.

love the song, great job!!! did you consider/try directly pointing the mic to the guitar (no amp) without the ball mesh on? Drums sound really good btw!!

been living this challenge

LOVE IT❤❤

Sir, if I use the original Shure SM 58 mic With Universal Volt 1 Audio Interface. Can I get a good recording? Noise will not come in the recording ? Will I get crisp sound quality?

Great idea - fun challenge - nice song! Will you continue working like this? Why? Why not?

Song was 🤯

I think I read somewhere that Bono from U2 uses an sm58 exclusively for all his vocal tracks

Sir, I want to do voice over. I want to buy Sure SM 58 mic. But a shopkeeper told me that you cannot do recording with dynamic mic. This is not for recording. Condenser mics are made for recording. Sir, what should i do ? Please tell me the Truth

sounds awesome! Gives me some nice death cab for cutie vibes. Goes to show we really shouldn't be wasting our money on super expensive audio gear

I liked the song!

I love the song

If you screw off the grill, you can use it like a 57. Better for amps and kit etc.

Very cool 🎉

No "Wurst" with this drum-Kit. :-)

Good for you young man ! Back in the day (1961) we had 1 mic, 1 MONO tape machine, and 1 basement. And friends that could actually play music. Next step ? Learn how to record WITHOUT Eq, overdrive, etc. We didn't need that nonsense, neither do you ! Best of success, hit me up with questions if you like. Bill P.

Very Pavement-esque

Every one of Bono's U2 vocals was famously recorded in the back of the control room with a 58. It's not the gear.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the focusrite solo doesn't really have great direct monitoring options", to me the direct monitor button seems like basically all you could ask for, correct me of I'm wrong Great video btw!

Dang, man. I just finished getting a sad excuse for a "studio" set up and spending hours giving myself a splitting headache trying to learn the new skill of recording. This is just what I needed. I, too, can get laser focused on certain things and miss the forest for the trees. I must say this was a great reminder to focus on the song as a whole and not get bogged down with minor details that suck the creativity out of the room. Inspiration is a perfect word for what you have provided with this video. Great work on a beautiful melody.

what type of genre of music would this be called

I don't know why but everytime I record my voice with this mic my voice doesn't sound great and kind of weak. Does it mean that's just actually my voice or there is something wrong with my setting? It feels like the mic can't capture my voice in a whole, and if I sing loudly the recording result sounds really bad, so many noises in the file. I don't know how to explain it in english. It makes my voice sounds like I get flu. Or it sounds like ...hmmm...mono audio?

It sounds pretty good! I've heard of people recording songs with just an sm58. I'd like to try this sometime too! Yahweh bless. :)

I literally just did this yesterday

Sir , nice video, please Suggest me Good Mic And Audio Interface for poetry recording. But I want professional quality. Suggest me Shure or Sennheiser Good mic

How about make a song with Fake Microphone from China if it's worth it. 😅