buy the used DPA 4061 mics and DPA mma6000 matching preamp, now for sale in the yardsale, for its size and quality its the best option for quality stealth tapes and a friend of mine who owns this rig (which I now borrow since I sold my own identical rig) also runs it open on an AKG T-bar, of which there is also a used one for sale in the yard sale, and never look back