My U87 was brand new.
I tried it on everyone's voice in my last five projects. It was a decent drum mic but the Micro-Tech Gefell stuff just blew it away at every turn. It sounded mushy. I tried it through a Spider, a Vipre, an RNP, an Amek, Yamaha PM2000....maybe because I was comparing it to a MG Phantom and a M930...
The entire spectrum seemed to be there and very clean but somewhere in the high mids??...not sure...mush-eee...
The band dudes heard it as well and some studio guys that came by.
Maybe it was a bad one.
Another POS:
My DAW.
It works flawlessly, I use a new hard drive for every project and you can edit effortlessly and sounds great, but I have a Studer A80 and the sound is bigger and it just seems to be more musical. I think when you come out of the DAW and use outboard gear the sound reacts differently than when it comes off the tape. But I am a newbie and a dumbass so.....
And this may be crazy but when I tell the guys that the tape is rolling they lay down better takes than when it is 75GB later on take 56 ITB.
And my biggest regret about having a DAW is watching the music having the life drained out of it with the MIDI click track.
And...sorry...you sit there and watch the music on the monitor....and it comes naturally to me...hate it...