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@arendleejessurun@musicians.todayI may be a weirdo for this, but I generally prefer the sound of dynamic mics over condenser mics.
And I gotta show some more love to the Beta 58a. I used this mic to record a female vocalist last week, and with some subtle EQ, compression, and reverb for tracking, it sounded like a record already.
@arendleejessurun back in my live engineering days the one condenser mic I really liked for vocals was the SM87. It was never that popular but I liked its non peaky tonal character and tight field. I also recall the arguments that went on regarding the beta 58 compared to the original, quite fiery at times!
@nigelharpur I don't know much about the 87! I'll have to look into that one.
Audio engineers and fiery arguments, you say? No, never. 
@arendleejessurun worth checking, you can pick one up for not much. The 86 was similar (black body instead of grey) but it had a pronounced high boost which could make it awkward for live work, the 87 was smooth. Some engineers preferred a presence/high 'bump' but I wasn't one of them, not on a stage littered with 400W JBL wedge monitors! 
A consensus amongst the golden eared was that the 58 beta offered a lot of practical advantages but had lost a little 'something' tonally over the original.
@nigelharpur Oof. On one of my only live sound gigs, I learned the hard way a presence boost does not cooperate with wedges lol.
That makes sense. To me, they're entirely different mics: the 58 and Beta 58.