Rode NT1 Signature Black

Loved the open clear sound on acoustic guitar, guitalele and Irish bouzouki.
The price-quality ratio of this mic kit is great and I can find many uses for it, originally intended it for recording speech and vocals but seems to works nicely on instruments too. I intended it to replace my Studio Projects C1 mk2 and it works nicely for that.
Some negatives: the microphone body gives an impression of "too lightweight construction" which might likely cause resonations in some situations and definitely makes it less sturdy. It is much lighter weight than most similar style microphones.
AND this is extremely sensitive to handling noise, among the worst I have ever encountered. Even with the spider it can catch all resonance from the stand very easily, would definitely not use on live applications or as drum overhead. It feels like there is no internal shockmount for the capsule at all. This is certainly limiting... I still like to use AKG Perception mics for most applications because the internal shockmount is really good which just makes life easier, even when the NT1 is much better sounding in most situations I have tested so far. But like said the price-quality ratio of the NT1 kit is extremely good when you just find uses where stand resonances and handling noises don't cause issues

I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about.

I think the "Rode" name and their marketing team are probably much better than the mic itself.

There's honestly nothing wrong with this mic in principal:

It's a clear sounding microphone sure enough, but, after testing it against another vocal mic I bought at the same time I decided to return this one.

The main problem was that it picks up too much ambient noise.
The backing track was pretty very picked up very loud through the singers headphones.
And, when tested against the other microphone it recorded at a 7db quieter level... meaning that, if I turned up the gain to compensate, the ambient noise would be even more of a problem.

So, well it sounds very nice , in practical use it seemed pretty useless for me.