Re: [LAU] Microphone advice

Hi, the best compromise is to buy a matched pair of small diameter condenser microphones. They are allrounder, not always the best choice, especially not in the lower price segment, but again, they are the best compromise for recording - singing (sort of) as well as recording - nylon string classical guitar - wind chimes without the need to have a collection of all kinds of microphones for different purpose. The polar pattern cardioid (kidney) is a good compromise. Don't buy an AKG 1000, if sound comes a little bit from the side, the recoding sounds disgusting, it's only ok, if the sound comes from the front only, IOW it's a more or less useless microphone. Regards, Ralf