Did I really start that thread 3 years ago, gee where did that time go?!?
Thanks to Richard Monroe who sent a PM to wake me up and let me know this thread was once again active.....well, in the end I purchased a single AKG C451b, it works well on my Lakewood small body M32 acoustic, if not a tad bright, but I can get great results by altering the placement of the mic. Next I purchased an ADK Vienna, that to me was the worst choice of mic I could make, it didn't work too badly on acoustic but on my voice it was well thin with no body (thats the mic, and perhaps my voice) that one went the Ebay route. I messed around with different dynamics and found my old Beyer stage mic that looks like it had been through a war suited my voice and was O.K. on acoustic for single line solos in some ballad style tracks. Next I went and purchased a Beyer M88, thats the one that suits my voice and is also great for some jazzy single acoustic lines and works well on my fender guitar amps So I'm down to a Beyer TGX 580 dynamic, Beyer M88 dynamic, AKG C451b small condensor, a new old stock Reslo Ribbon mic, bargain of the year for equiv of 5 dollars at a flee market. Thorn JVC Elextret stereo condensor (great on acoustic although not really a pro mic) and at the moment that covers my mini mic locker, I can get quite good results with these mics although not costing a fortune. Preamps are JLM Audio 99v design using a Llundahl 1538 input transformer and a Ridge Farms dual valve pre, that I sometimes feed into the input of the JLM to give a valvey sound to vocals. The JLM preamp pcb that I purchased from JLM made an amazing pre using two discreet op-amps, I'm going to add the Neve style JLM pre before long and have an La2a in the making.
Thought this was an interesting idea, how well it works i'm not sure.......
http://www.exploraudio.com/microphone-mounts_1_1.htm
Just to say without you guys and the Guys on Prodigy forum, I'd be nowhere with this lot. I'll post some sound samples as soon as the Recording Computer is rebuilt into a dual core, its stripped out at the moment.
Thank you all again....
Vikki(uk)