I play an RB175 Seeger longneck style by Gibson but a dropped a Rich and Taylor pot into it.
It records well.

I have an old 1922 B and D tenor #1 which I have adapted to drop-tenor (Irish) tuning.
Oddly enough, it's a good instrument but it sounds muddy even when brought up to
standard tenor pitch.

My workshorse is a B and D neck on an Ome pot.

I think that Ome makes the best four-string banjos available today and they compare
most favorably with any Bacon and Day's out there as well as old Paramounts. In a band setting, the Ome (like the B and D) doesn't break up at high levels such as does the
Vega Vox.

Frank