josh,
you know you want the UA5. get a p-mod tho, there aren't much of those and i bet octavas>p-mod would sound better than w-mod in a some situations, like last saturday at Cicero's....
V2, sonosax, psp-2, dmic-20 would all be great choices and like others have said the a/d in the m1 is pretty good.
Brian