Brian Eno

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Singer Keyboardist Composer

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Rock Electronic Pop

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David Bowie (band) Roxy Music Passengers

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Energy Dome Frequencies: Songs From The DEVO Documentary Play On Luminal

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Singer Keyboardist Composer

Genre

Rock Electronic Pop

Group

David Bowie (band) Roxy Music Passengers

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Energy Dome Frequencies: Songs From The DEVO Documentary Play On Luminal

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Shure SM58

Dynamic Microphones

In this transcribed interview from the October 1990 issue of Sound On Sound magazine, Eno's acquisition and use of a Shure SM-58 is described in detail. "For Eno, a sense of urgency in music making is paramount, the kind of urgency that says: ‘if a demo tape is exciting enough, then use that as the core of a track and avoid endless mixes and takes’. Wrong Way Up is about this kind of urgency. Take for example Eno’s use of an 'old beaten up Shure SM58 microphone'".

“'I found this microphone that I think is sort of a magic microphone. When we were working on 'Carmen Miranda' and 'Words For The Dying' at the Strongroom, we tried this mic, and that mic, and they all sounded terrible. And there was this Shure, which is the cheapest basic rock’n’roll mike you can get. John didn’t want to use it ‘cos he didn’t like it, he thought. I said ‘John, try this Shure, you might as well’. He just said four words through it and I said to the studio engineer, ‘I’ll buy this mic.’ (laughs) And I bought it on the spot.”

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Shure SM57

Dynamic Microphones

In this documentary about Eno, we can see a 57 laying on his studio desk in the foreground on the left at the 2:33 mark.

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