This is an interesting set of interactive demonstrations showing the effect of microphone positioning relative to a performer. All the extracts are recorded using DPA4006A omni microphones in A-B configuration in a good acoustic.

I use an AT-3035 from Audio-Technica for vocals which I'm pretty happy with. A friend of mine wanted a recommendation so I wanted to recommend the AT 3035, but it's come to my attention that it's out of production now, so I was wondering if Audio-Technica had a modern day equivalent for this microphone?

So this has been covered a many times in these forums, but now I'm in the position of actually having to choose one of these for a multipurpose (mostly vocals) lg diaphragm condenser- I'm familiar with the TLM 103 and how it sounds. Some folks seem to like the others more.