| To be honest, I wouldn't even consider the MKH8000 series to be a poor mans MKH800. They are all pretty different sounding mics.
If you are aiming for quality at a price point, the 480 isn't bad, but it isn't IMO anywhere close to the mics listed in the title of this thread. In my personal rig, I spent years of getting "the poor man's" version of XXXX. I found that I was never happy and I always ended up getting what I really wanted in the end.
My take is that it is better to have a better quality but smaller kit than have a kit that is larger, but not exactly what you want or need.
--Ben |