Big Jim:

"YOU MUST LEARN THE BASICS BEFORE YOU COMMENT. If you will not do it for me do it for your self. PRETTY PLEASE".

Jim, I can take crap as well as anyone.
I could come here, having a college education and copy what the other guy says and make myself look like I'm the bees knees with everything I say.
I go for honesty.
And originality is not going to come out of enhanced, digitized software.
If you can do it, good for you.
But there is a difference between being crafty and original.
The recording equipment must be weighed in as a whole, small to big. I'm not going to put a motor of a junkard truck into a Rolls Royce either. Though that might be fun to try once.
A cheap assed mic would'nt be good if there was all the bells and whistles to start out with.
But with the basics, a Radio Shack special will get the point across and sounds actually more homogoneos than is given credit for.
I'm sure you know what you are talking about, but we are all in our own realm with it.
The only mic I played around with previous to the net was a pre-net one made by Roland.
But the computer is a different animal with that.
Yet I am still kind of stuck into the old convention with it.
As much as I may try to update.
I don't want to be a Rolls Royce, just a reliable Chrysler.