All:

Hey, well while I am stuck in the very cheap pro-sumer (not even Shure if I am this high :o ) I figure I might as well make the best of it. I am looking for duel purpose mics for overheads, acoustic guitar, and vocals. Well thats three things but close enough. I have narrowed down the mics to either a R0DE NT-1A or a couple of Oktava MK319's.

The singer I'm currently works with sounds awsome on this mic. But I'm not happy with the overall quality of the signal. I may perhaps just have a "bad" one, as my friend did buy it from guitar center 5 years ago, but I've always hear people saying the tone of the mic will be horrible if you happen to get a bad one, not the noise level or sensitivity.

Anyway...

GC has a deal on (2) oktava mk012's for 99.00.

are these any different than the mc012's? (I always thought they were mC012's as opposed to mK012's)

here's the stupid noob question.

I think I am going to get a pair but am debating on whether I need the capsoles as they are more expensive than the mic's themselves.

GC is blowin Oktava ML52's out at 200 bucks. Most people seem to be gawking at the 100 for MC012's, but I wanna know bout this one. Anyone used it? Is it worth having around cause it's a ribbon or is the money better in the bank saving for a royer? Does it have that ribbon "warmth" that is so often spoken of? I have a some condensers (rode, oktava, AT) and the regular dynamics.

This low cost tube mic has been around for a while now, so as anyone tried it? How does it compare to other low price tube mics?

Also, has anyone every used the Apex 450? Is this the same mic as the SoundKing SKEA002W?

I was thinking of purchasing some Oktava microphones and I was wondering if anyone has used them for applications such as drum overheads or acoustic guitars.

Musician's friend has the highly touted Oktava MC012's with 3 capsules for $249. They also have the cardiod MK012 for $99. What is it? How does it related to the MC012? Is it just a single pattern MC012? Thanks.

IM a location sound engineer among other things and am looking at purchasing a hyper cardiod for interior dialogue recording .The schoeps with the mk41 hypercardiod head seems to be the established mic to use but ive heard good things about the octavia mc01 and the Sennheiser mkh50 .I was wondering if anyone had experiance with these mics.
cheers ant