I've said it before and I'll gladly say it again, For the $$$$ Go with Church gear. I have pulled MANY excellent shows with my little rig and I get compliments all of the time on it. As a matter of fact, I taped what has been called by over 200 ppl the best recording of the Police tour this far with just my church mics straight into my R09 .
Because of the recommendations of a few guys on this board i picked up a used set of c4's for like $200.00 a few months back to tape my first open show. I ran c4-art phantom 2-church 9000 pre-R09 to tape umphreys and dmb and I was absolutely stunned at the quality. You absolutely dont need to drop large sums of $$ to pull good tapes, anyone here will tell you that.