Robert Smith

According to this 2007 interview with the Cure's front-of-house engineer Michael Brennan, Smith used a 58 for "decades" and when they had him test out a Sennheiser 935, he preferred the growl of the 58, as well as the fact that it didn't smear his lipstick off as easily, and he continued using the 58.

This article from the June 1996 issue of Sound On Sound magazine lists the C12 as being among Robert's microphones during the recording of their album Wild Mood Swings.

In this interview from the April 2000 issue of Guitar World magazine, Robert explains how he used the SM57 for both guitar and vocals on the Bloodflowers album.

"I remember the guitar parts being very easy," Hedges says. "Robert had most of them worked out and the overdubs were simple — they were double-tracks, guitars with more effects or embellishments here and there. However, there were very few over-overdubs. They were mainly just single overdubs, and there was very, very little comping on that album. In terms of the vocals, which Robert performed into a Neumann FET 47, we'd do just one track and if it wasn't right we'd redo it, and if it still wasn't right we'd maybe drop in one or two bits, but generally there was very little comping. We didn't really have the time. There might have been two guitar tracks comped into one and there might have been two vocal tracks comped into one, but generally everything was as played or as sung.

In this transcription of an article from the June 1996 issue of Sound on Sound magazine, Smith says, "I've used an AKG C12 mic since the Wish album, because for me it's much more forgiving."