Shure SM57

THe Shure SM57 dynamic microphone was Peter Gabriel's preferred microphone for vocals on the Security album. Producer & engineer David Lord liked recording Peter ‘live’ with an SM57 in the control room, as opposed to having him experience "all the pressures of being in front of a (big and expensive) [Neumann] U47 microphone!"

Ever since the Security sessions, Peter stuck with the SM57 as his main studio mic - he was also pictured singing into it during early So album sessions. But later on in the sessions, producer Daniel Lanois conducted a blindfold test with Peter to choose an alternative microphone to the SM57, and by the end it was a Neumann U47.