If you're looking for cheap get a sm57 use it for vocals and amp micing.

Thanks Johnyc,

Yes cheap to start but willbe upgrading quickly.
Do I need a preamp?

-mike

Firepod has 8 preamps. Use them.

ok, this has been said a hundred thousand times already, here we go again...

a shure sm57 (and the sm58) will ALWAYS be a VERY good investment in your ever growing mic collection... and you will always find a good use for it, recording whatever, really... even if you have at a later stage a bucked load of Neumanns, senns, akgs or whatever... for thousand of dollars...

go grab one... it's a very good mic, specially for a start! as it hardly wan't "GET OLD" within your collection.