Advice on mic decision

[ryanformato]

Right now my studio is constantly growing. My mic collection right now is an SM-57 for miking guitar cabinets, an MXL V63M for (darker vocals) and I just got a Rode NT-1a (for brighter vocals) I am not interested in miking drums because I have Drumkitfromhell superior and a set of vdrums. I have an EMU-1820M soundcard with 2 ted fletcher preamps (these preamps sound awesome) as well as a stereo pair of bluetube preamps.

I am interested in acquiring some more mic for vocals so I can have a variety of great sounds although they may sound different. I was looking into the Marshall V67, V69 as well as the Studio Projects C1. Now those are the low end mikes. Is it worth it to buy like 3 of the low end mikes that sound awesome or is it worth it to save and buy a Neumann TLM103 or U87? Money is an issue, but I'd be willing to save over a lot of time to acquire the more expensive gear. Is the sound of the Neumann mic really worth it in relative contrast to these newer mics?

(Also as an aside, the sm-57 sounds great on the guitar cabinets but I was wondering how would the Marshall 603s sound?)

[mshilarious]

Originally Posted by ryanformato

Is it worth it to buy like 3 of the low end mikes that sound awesome or is it worth it to save and buy a Neumann TLM103 or U87?

Pretty big jump from the Marshall to the Neumann. I think it'd be worth it save for a KSM44 or AT4050 though.

[Big Kenny]

Depends on: the rest of your set up, why you want assortment, what you want to achieve in your studio, what voices are you trying to record, etc
Justharold recently did a nice mic shootout (subjective, but still pretty cool)
you should check that out. It lines up a lot of the mics you are looking at.
http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthr...ght=justharold

[ryanformato]

I mainly want to use the mic for a male voice doing punk/rock music. Why I'm asking this question is that I don't want to buy all these low end mics still longing for the best and in the end I'll end up buying a TLM 103 anyways.

The marshall V69 is a tube mic and isn't that cheap ($300) so I am wondering how close it actually is to the U87 and what would be worth getting. Oh yeah, I have found some cheaper TLM 103's too (I have been searching the internet and I have found one for ($825 at D.M. Gremlin Productions) as well as ($749) at puresound.com

Thanks.