beyerdynamic M 88

The Beyerdynamic M88TG is a great allround dynamic mic.
It's really good for every application where a dynamic mic is suitable.
I mainly use it for professional use in the studio for bass cab, kick and snare.
It's actually one of my favorite snare mics, especially on vintage wood snares. Really fat sound!
It also works great on some percussion, guitar cabs and vocals at times (even though I have a lot of a lot more expensive Tube and Condenser mics).

Get it, you will not regret it!

This is one of the best dynamic all-around mics. Very good for guitar amps, sax, acoustic guitar - it turned to be good for everything I tried to record, but mainly I use it for recording electric guitar.
Make sure you've plugged it in a decent mic preamp for the best results.
This microphone needs proper handling, it is not a 'plug & play' device, therefore, you are to spend a certain time experimenting in positioning this mic. For some of you, it might be an advantage or disadvantage so it is worth mentioning.
Finally, it is a dynamic microphone and it suits fine in a live environment.
However, it is not a chip microphone in its every aspect, so M88TG can distinguish itself in a wide palette of different microphones available on the market nowadays.

Beyerdynamic recently updated all their "M-series" mics. The M88 now gets a different grille, all other M-series have only cosmetic changes.
They have essentially gone back to the older M88 design with one coarse and one fine steel mesh and no foam. Pop filtering is less effective, but clarity for vocals is improved. There is more handling noise than more modern vocal mics but the HPF mostly fixes it. The front half of the grille is held on with 3 screws and on the old model these sometimes came out and the grille fell apart esp. on kick drum. Beyer have spares and you can use thread locking compound. It still has the heavy brass handle, coil and humbucking coil. Build quality is first class but the mic clip is all plastic, IMO needs a brass insert for the thread.

It has a better vocal sound than a 58 with less EQ and very good feedback rejection. Neodymium magnet produces high output. I've been using some pretty good vocal condenser, but when I tried the new M88 I couldn't believe how good it was! I would buy these for every singer if they were not so expensive. It is also well known how good the M88TG is for kick, snare, toms, guitar, bass cab, brass, woodwinds and more. For kick drum then definitely buy the WS59 wind screen to protect it.
Just a pity they've almost doubled in price in a year.