Electro-Voice - ND76

This Mic is pretty awesome for the price. I liked it better when it was cheaper. You want a not so popular take? My favorite mic on voice wasnt the sm7B. It wasnt the PR40, or Any expensive mic for that matter. I liked the ND76, which is like 100ish now ( used to sell for 70 when it came out.) Its a hand held mic, and I'd rather have a hand held mic, that has awesome rejection, easier setup out the box, and are built like tanks, than some of the more modern broadcast advertised mics you see today. If you dont have a recording studio, dont look at a recording studio mic. Get the mic you would see at punk show, and make it work. Digital modulation and filters are such commonplace now a cleaner high db mic with awesome side rejection is the way to go.

My go to affordable vocal mic is the Nd76. It's $135 brand new and a huge improvement over the 58 for barely much more.

I was all for buying an SM58 but went to test in the store and tried it against an EV ND76 and it was night and day. The clerk said male voices tended to suit the SM58 better but this one was perfect for my voice. So also very much dependant on the person also.

No....just no. It's not the same mdc as the 4040 and above, it's shrill and has a terrible low mid boom. Now, OP, the Line Audio Cm1. The Octava MK012. AKG p120. EV nd76a. Studio Projects B1 ect (all same design) MXL V69M. SM57/58.

Try an SM57 for lead vocals onstage at a small gig. I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it is. It's a little bit unusual, but I recently made a whole bunch of excellent singers happy that way, and I even had the usual SM58 available for them. One guy, a certifiable old school jazz legend, specifically requested the 57 after seeing it used by someone before him. For the newbies... Branch out from Shure. Spend the same amount though. EV and Sennheiser make great vocal mics that address different vocal styles. I like a Sennheiser e835 for mousy female vocals where a Beta 87 or SM58 would feed back. EV ND series sound pretty good on a guitar amp for hollow body jazz stuff. Grab a cloudlifter and an inline DI-style phantom power source to round out your toolbox. You never know when you're going to need either of those.