QUOTE Ralphie:
As an addendum, (Out of our price bracket of course!)
I used to use an STC 4038 ribbon mic on guitar cabs, Marshall etc.
You wouldn't think it would work, being so delicate, but. it sounds so amazingly warm, and the fact that it's a figure of eight configuration means that you get the sound of wall reflections as well. Mind you, it would be rubbish in a gigging way.....(But it looks so sexy!!)
Also I'm the proud owner of a Polyphonic Spree carbon granular mic.
Lucky Me! "

Can also be marvellous if you use a 57 as well as the ribbon and blend the 2.
The smoothness of the ribbon and the grittier sound of the dynamic can be great.
Ralphie there are a lot of good quality ribbon mics on the market now made by SE and the like and the lovely ones from Cowley and Tripp, though they are dearer, but none as dear as the Coles mics.