“He got his first Telefunken M80 ten years ago and has used that model ever since. The M80-WH capsule works the best for Sammy’s live performance because it gives the right type of top end that he can hear clear as a bell, the right type of attack to keep up with his Les Paul guitar, but the real keeper is the way that Michael Anthony can be heard clearly when they sing together on their M80s. It’s like something other than cardioid or super cardioid, more like an asymmetrical star pattern, like what I imagine a round diaphragm would look like as it moves.”