AKG, Hafler, Electrovoice and Neumann are the best. Shure makes the cheapest line used by professionals. So to make a long story short, I decided to go analog. It sounds great, is easy to use, uses cassette tapes, works with a cigarette-lighter adapter or a camera flash battery pack, and best of all I can get it repaired in town. In my mind, going digital was not the best way to go.
Many musicians agree.
For many people, the art of using a scanner with an Optical Character Recognition progam or OCR is a challenge best left to the professionals. Just pronouncing the words optical character recognition hurts. So most people never use these programs to put their paper text documents into their computer. What I am talking about is that for many years people have been able to use a scanner to scan a piece of printed paper, and then put it into a new document or to fax it. The problem is that no one has been able to create a pain-less way to do this.