Used the E604 on two bands so far and the results were quite good. Not blown away by them but they sound at least as good as the SM57 on toms, if not better.
If I get better at tuning drums that will help also. Cannot stress how important drum tuning is.
Spent a bit of time reading about it and gave it a go. Even with my basic knowledge and skills it makes the drum kit sound how it is supposed to rather than having snares that change in pitch and bass drums that sound nothing like a drum.
Keep an eye out on ebay for C414 secondhand. On singers who naturally have a 'nice' voice i.e not a harsh one. They tend to sound really nice.
Shure SM7b is a popular studio dynamic microphone for male vocals at the moment.
Earthworks make some very nice microphones also. They are not cheap but you get a very high quality microphone. I ordered their free drum mic's demo CD off their website.
Been impressed with what I have heard of the Audix D6 on kick. I don't own one but nobody seems to utter a bad word about it.
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