Microphone placement and the room is so much more important than the mic itself. Cardioid dynamic mics like sm57 are like yamaha saxes.
Absolutely true.
My advice to anyone with a home studio is to not worry about slight nuances between microphones, because your biggest issue is likely to be the room and the monitors.
Even if your room sounds good to you while playing the saxophone, the chances are it has huge issues when recorded.
Having set up a "home studio" that has to be a bit beyond a home studio as I'm doing masters for TV/film etc.
Rooms and soundwaves have strange anomalies. and what might sound to you like a great mic in one room, can work terribly in another. For example a big mistake people often make in home studios is to use ribbon mkics, because they tried one in an actual studio and it sounded great. Or they heard a great recording and decided to get one of those. But as they tend to pick up so much room, then what was good in that nice studio is actually what causes all the issues in your home studio.
To an extend DIY solutions can be great, but the big problem is often bass traps trying to deal with a big horrible boom around 100hZ. The kind of tgraps to deal with that need to be quite big, so often not so practical in a small home room.
I have that exact issue in my control room which is quite a bit smaller than my live room. It is very nice with mid/high damping as specified by a great studio architect, but the room is too small to deal with the boom caused by a suspended floor.
Everything else is great except a recorded tenor low A which just had this huge boomyness. Obviously if you EQ the track taking that into account, then when you listen somewhere else it just sounds very thin.
My solution was to get tuneable strudio mon itors (JBLLSR4328). Once you've tuned them to the room which they do themselves via a process of a mic placed at your listening position and then emitting a sine wave sweep through all frequencies. Then what you hear from the monitors has taken all the room EQ anomalies into account.