ribbon with flat HF response

Dear slutz,



I have been renting Schoeps MK2H&MK4. MK2H gives a very nice sound. Clients are happy, the CD got a bit of airplay. Thanks to your advice a DAV BG8 and RME UFX were bought as well, this kit starts to sound actually quite professional.



However, I bought 100EU NoHypeAudio ribbons and I got a preference for this

ribbon-sound. When close miking, it sounds more real to me than the Schoeps, even the bass I prefer to the Schoeps. 10 years ago I once tested AEA R88 also, on chamber music concert with piano&violin, marimba, string quartet,flute/harp/cello trio... was nice,

but then I was only having two track recorder, and thus prefered Soundfield.



Some people stated in the forum that they're not a fan of "ribbons that sound like condensers" i.e. with a flat high freq response.



I've heard piano-samples of SAMAR MF65 mike, and I like them very much.

It has all the high freq, but apparantly not the resonance peak of a condenser mike.



These recordings I think were not made at a great distance. I guess 6 feet away or so.



I would like to optimalise my ribbon & preamp arsenal in order to use

them on chamber music sources in church-acoustics, and I like to record as far away as possible, to get 50/50 direct and reverberant sound.



So i'm looking for 2 ribbons in MS and 2 in AB. Samar MF65 of VL37 comes to mind.



in case it is possible, I might improve the preamps. Is there something that offers less noise floor than a DAV? or is the DAV already having the best specs?



Pueblo?



I mean really way better, not just a bit? I am not going to spend 4x money

for gaining 1 db or so.



what about noise reduction software?



thanks,

monitor

ribbon with flat HF response