I'm producing a jazz octet date at Bennett Studios next month. The mic list (of included gear, noit rental items) is short on tube mics. They do have 2 Coles 4038 and 2 AEA R84. 4 ribbons total.

Here is the instrumentation:

5 horns-1 each of ,trumpet, trombone, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones.

piano. bass, drums.

I can use the Coles on the brass and the AEA 84s on the alto & tenor and use a LDC tube mic on the baritone (or bring my oktava ml52 ribbon).

How about that? Ribbons for all the horns. What do you cats think?

Check out the mic list at Bennett.http://www.bennettstudios.com/north.html

Sorry if I'm off topic, I know you were talking about 44 & 77s. But you guys seem to know ribbon mics well. My experience is limmited to RCA 44 & 77, Coles 4038 and Royer sf1. I've never worked with the AEA r84. I did do a mic shoot out with Walter Sear, Andrew Williams and David Baker about 8 years ago. AEA 44 vs. RCA 44. (Also Lawson L47 vs. Neumann U47).