Mitch A

I'm in the same boat. I have been thinking of getting a new matched pair of akg 414xls mics for overheads, guitars and vocals. I have a couple of questions for you 414 users. One is how much significance would you put on a matched pair for overheads (drums). The other question is what is it about the Buls version that makes it so popular. I did notice the two new versions of the 414 have one taylored to instrumental such as overheads and the other seems to be taylored to solo vocal and softer recordings.