Dsatz thanks for your repsonse....Although I have not been recording 40 years....I have been about 13-14 years.... Mostly jamband stuff, blue grass, country style rock, the dead, some low key acoustic stuff but not much. I curently have many options.... My main choice of mics are MBHO648's with a set of LK omnis, wide cards, cards and hyper caps.....from my experience through trial and error, I tend to use omnis outside, onstage or very close...wide cards outside, on stage, very close and in excellent sounding rooms.. Cards outside, mid way in rooms. Hypers outside in low wind conditions, midway to back of the room or those shity sounding rooms that I want to combat as much reflection as possible.... I also have a set of nak cm300 with the cards, omnis and shot gun caps.... I have used the shotguns mid room in crapy sounding rooms with good results. I too believe that having as many options as possible in terms of mics is a good idea... still kickin myself I sold my Rode NT2000 LD's.. my orignal post was more a mission on what people seem to like. I like my nak shotguns... but just wondering what others are using.... as I may want something a little more modern. But I know modern doesn't always mean better.....just modern.
peace ook