I want to look into getting a good vocal microphone for recording that is inexpensive. At the time being this is for my home setup. I'm using a 003 Rack+. I have been using a Samson C01. The reason being is that at work, the C01 blew out thousands of dollars of mic on a particular vocalist we had. I didn't believe it until I heard it and mixed two songs with it. It's now been a joke throughout our sound team! However, it is a bit noisy on the high end without a good pre amp. Through the liquid 4pres at work into PT HD it's great, but on the 003 rack, there is some hissing in the air area that just bad enough that I'm going to look for another mic.
That being said, would you have a suggestion for a microphone within two hundred dollars that sounds ok on vocals? I think in the mean time I'm going to switch to my Audix VX5 because it sounds very similar and just as flat as the C01.
Or, would you suggest a pre amp for my needs? It would have to have ADAT.
Please say if you would suggest either a mic or a pre amp and which mic or pre amp - hopefully within a couple hundred dollars.