my wife asked me what i wanted for Christmas, and i told her a good vocal mike for the Woodshed studio. when she asked me what kind, i had to scratch my head ... dang, i dunno!
my voice is peculiar ... it's baritone/bass, and i usually have to key down a third to a fifth for most male vocal covers. it's a boomy voice, but if i use a mike that screens out the boom, i lose all the warmth. my singing isn't Junior Brown-deep, more somewhere between Merle and Cash. i also use a gnarly Tom Waits style sometimes, and that's hard for most mikes to handle.
my main vocal mike now is a CAD E-100, and it sounds great with my wife's voice and with male singers in a more "normal" range. it has a 100Hz high-pass filter, which gets rid of a lot of the mud but sacrifices the richness.
as many savvy mike mavens as we have on this forum, i wondered if anybody knew of one that's friendly to the lows/low mids without sacrificing high mids and presence.
cost is an issue, though; anything over $300 would be a deal-killer, and $200 would be more like it.
i know, i'm wishing for the moon! but any suggestions would be gratefully considered.