Anyone else tried out a de-transformered 57?

I tried this for the first time some years ago and have used my first one a ton since. Vocals, kick drum, snare, overhead glyn johns style, guitar amp, horns.. It’s a fantastic utility mic.

I don’t hate the standard 57 sound as some do, I find it very useful particularly more in a music context vs game/film audio. Still, with this modification the sound is much smoother and pleasant to record with. The change in sound is worth the extra noise imo, especially in this era of audio cleanup tools like spectral denoise.

I basically just snip the wires, drop the bottom half of the mic into warm/hot water until the glue softens, and then scrape out the glue and snip out the transformer before resoldering the xlr connector to the top.