I need to buy a matching pair of Mics to record (primarily) acoustic guitar in stereo.
Nothing too silly price-wise.

Cheers chaps (and chapesses)

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What do you mean by "not silly prices"?

Silly cheap or silly expensive?

Personally I use a pair of MKH 40 or MKH 30/40 as an MS pair.

Cheaper...

Neumann KM 140 - cheaper still KM 184

A pair of Sennheiser K6+ME64 makes a nice inexpensive pair (or e664 if you can find a pair around - exactly the same as the K6 series but £100 each cheaper).

The new e914, due out later this month, should be nice.

Prices of above range from £2,000 a pair to £400 a pair.

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Well, I absolutely love Oktava MC012s. I expect some (including Mr Willett) will think this is sacrilege, but I sold a matched pair of Sennheiser MKH20s not so long ago as I was always using the Oktavas in preference. Don't get me wrong, the Sennheisers were glorious, but I got better results quicker using the Oktavas for my own preferred setups.

I got mine from The Sound Room (curiously, the URL seems to be unavailable at present) and have nothing but praise for their service. They do some sort of quality control/rebuild/pair matching thing which is well worth the extra money over buying straight from Digital Village or whatever. And the mics are lovely - cardioid capsules are accurate and articulate, whilst the omnis have an overt warm, creamy character.

Must say something about Groove Tubes mics, too. Whilst they're available in matched pairs, are apparently great value and have a nice transparent, open quality, those things are noisy as hell! I find it impossible to use them as room mics for quieter classical stuff, for example, and it's not a preamp issue.

What else? Rodes are damn good value for money, but NT1As have rather an edge to them - good for some things, not for others. Those SE Electronics mics also get a good write-up in SOS, but I'd seriously want to hear them for myself before committing. Oh, and I've never used a bad Audio Technica.

Hope some of that helps! Cheers - Robin

A better idea of your budget would help Dan! I got a pair of Neumann 184s recently at about £325 + VAT each and find them very nice on acoustic guitar. AKG C451s are nice too. If your budget will stretch, try out the C414s, which have the added advantage that you can use them for pretty much anything else (e.g vocals, piano etc).

And do try out some of the "non-Germanic" stuff too, which is probably better value.

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I would say that Rode NT5 could do the job just fine.

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