Greetings.

I'm preparing for a long project, archiving some local bands from many genres.

And I need advice on how to recording audio for this project...
So far I've had advice to buy either AKG 414 or Sennheiser 416...
The budget has around 2000$ for audio hardware, so let me know what you think the setup should be.

I would be shooting on HPX171 through XLR...and controled shoots, in closed interesting locations, without background noise.

The quality of course should be as good but not a studio type quality, without recording every single instrument...maximum 2 microphone setup.

Because there are so many different kind of bands, I could ask them to prepare an acoustic version of their song.
That could make things easier.

Any ideas on the recording strategy?

Thank you for your thoughts...and time.

Thank you,