| Hey Sean-
I can only speak for myself here, but I didn't mean to flame anyone or turn this into some sort of indictment of gearslutz. I have bought some of the stuff that is big here on GS, and found it just didn't do it for me (u87 for ex) and other things that seem to be total GS sleepers and loved those things and use them all the time (1" 16 track tape for ex), that is life as a gearslut. And it sounds like you have done quite a bit of research, so cool.
IMHO you need some mics that are not Chinese. Don't get me wrong, I use Chinese stuff all the time and they offer pretty good value, but you will want some real high end US/Aus/Eu mics.
Impossible for anyone to say over the internet what mics will work for you; for me, I am often the engineer and the session musician, so mics that are no brainier always sound good, but not boring are my cup of tea. A pair of well maintained k47 m49's and a soundfield would be great for my working style. I have a pair of cad vx2's and the mag mic, and right now the one I would add would be the soundfield.
If you are a tinkerer and like to have many different options (and think that you can convince bands to take the time) I would look at a blue bottle, a bunch of caps, and some of the red bodies to be able use some of your different caps. Or start with the red body, work you way to the blue. Thats a cool system and kindof like the 500 for mics.
The only downside with that is now you have to figure out per vocalist which cap/body/pre is ideal, and with your pre collection, and say 5 caps and 2 bodies, it will take quite a while to get through all ~150 options. . . |