Chino Moreno

"When it comes to microphones, Deftones use all Shure products. Olech is working with Shure Beta 58 for the vocals, which is lead singer Chino Moreno’s favourite mic." - via Total Production International magazine

The author of this article interview of Deftness says, "If Moreno wanted to use a hand-held mike, Raskulinecz and his engineer Paul Fig assembled a U87 with one of those old radio-broadcast windscreens on it, with a lot of duct tape and a large piece of foam around it."

"... a music stand with some of my lyrics on it, some candles burning, and instead of using a hand-held microphone like I usually use, I was using a really nice microphone. I just stodd there and let loose. It was something I'd never done. I think that's how singers usually record, but on the first record I recorded everything live with the band in the room, with a little Shure 58 microphone." - via an archived Circus magazine article from 1998. Unfortunately, the original PDF is not available. Other sources are welcome.

A Telefunken 251 was used to record Chino Moreno's vocals during the "Diamond Eyes" recording sessions, as stated in this interview. The interview reads, "most of the ambience comes from Chino Moreno’s vocals, the clarity of which was ensured with a Telefunken tube 251."

In the video on YouTube, Team Sleep performs live for Woodstock sessions. He clearly is using a Shure sm7b microphone. Using a black Gibson SG also