Shure SM57

Peter Gabriel initially used a Shure SM57 as his preferred microphone for vocals on the Security album. Producer David Lord liked recording Peter ‘live’ with an SM57 in the control room, "rather than all the pressures of being in front of a (big and expensive) [Neumann] U47 microphone!"

Soon the SM57 became Peter's preferred vocal mic. Peter continued to use the SM57 during early stages of the So album. But a blindfold test was done with Peter by producer Dan Lanois, and in the end Peter chose the Neumann U47.