RB 500 : Great and inexpensive!

Incredible price/quality ratio! It works great on guitar cabinets, didn't test it yet on voice but I guess will be great as well. The sound is quite balanced and natural, placed only few centimeters aways from an electric guitar's cab.

Worth the investement if you need a ribbon but also have to buy other microphone/gear. Otherwise, if you have more money to put on only one microphone and you're sure it has to be a ribbon, I would suggest a Cascade Fathead or even a Royer, because they have a better frequency response and are more towards pro requirements. Also, they would let you plug your own cable. In fact, would be great if this same microphone would allow you to plug your cable instead of having its stock one, which if broken, would render the mic useless. Other than that, bravo t.bone, great product!!!