On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:13:19 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

My 16-yo budding rock guitar hero son is after a microphone. He and his
mates often record themselves jamming and don't have a suitable mike. They
tend to record into PCs (or Macs) and I guess might want to bung it into
guitar amps or various bits of domestic audio kit they have around. Apart
from vocals I guess it might be used recording acoustic guitars.

It definitely needs to be robust and, having some idea what any sort of
serious mics can cost, priced at the Santa-friendly end of the range :-)

Hi John.

I would recommend the AKG C214, a large diaphram cardioid
pattern condenser mic, with a 20dB pad.

http://www.thomann.de/gb/akg_c214.htm

I think this is a wind-up :-)