[Sean Holland]

I am on the brink of investing in a matched pair of condensor mics mainly for the following purposes:
1. Recording choirs, sometimes in decent halls, sometimes in school gyms.
2. Concert bands (school gyms, decent halls)
3. Acoustic acts in small clubs and coffee shops.
I'll likely be using ORTF technique in most of the above cases, but I'm not dogmatic.
I might also want to use them in my garage from time to time: drum kit overheads, me on my acoustic, etc. etc., if such universally versatile units exist.
First priority is that they work well for the numbered purposes, as I would expect to make money doing that.
The mics would be teaming up with my MOTU 896HD, (I also have a Focusrite Octopre and an Aphexs 207 pre in my rig), and a Powerbook G4 running DP 4.5.
Budget is no more than $2500 (Canadian).
I'd appreciate any advice at all. Thanks.