I was going to mention the Seventh Circle Audio T15 looking like it could be excellent bang for the buck, but then the thread went in an anti-DIY direction so I didn't. I guess now I did. Worth checking out: Seventh Circle Audio
...mine called "I Don't Feel Heat" Acoustic guitar was V3, vocal was V1. Both tracks were through a Seventh Circle Audio T15 into the new Rev F 1176 I built from Hairball. There is some verb, delay, EQ and compression going on here...I didn't record this as a demonstration of the raw mic sound, but I...
...be very clean and I threw that on there. Mic Preamps -- most of the drums were my seventh circle audio T15's that I built. I used the Electrodyne 501 pres on all the guitars, the snare top, and possibly the kick. Kick might have been the A Designs Ventura, I can't be sure. I printed...