How Do You Build a Microphone Collection?

Every time i would go to another studio, if there was a microphone i was unfamiliar with, i would stick it up somewhere just to listen to what it sounded like. It's basically the same process like your you have a sense memory of something, and you remember something working well in a certain situation. So when you find an analogue to that situation, you have a means of at least starting to experiment. You don't necarily get right every time. This pan te mentally ill came in, record, they recordedin an album. And i remembered using small diaphragm condenser mikes on bob burt's metal percussion from pussy galore,. so i set up small di