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If its just rehearsal we just plonk a phone down in the middle of the room. Works fine for reference.
If you have time to experiment and want something which might be commercially usable:
Take two mics that have figure of 8 polar patterns, such as ribbon mics. Set them up in the middle of the room so that you are capturing an almost 360 sound. Position the musicians around the mics, play with distance to help level the volume etc. It's quite difficult if you are using a loud acoustic drumkit, but for simple acoustic arrangements and folk bands etc, it can be a really great aesthetic.
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Those various Zoom handhelds are the next step up and very good at what they do - particularly the ones with extra inputs for e.g. kick and/or vocals. Don't forget you need to mix "in the room" with any of these things - they can't make magic out of a shit in-room sound
I've yet to achieve that if it's myself I'm recording!
Have on occasion used the onboards for the room, and then mic up cabs or whatever as well.
It can also be used as a DAW control surface or interface, not played around with that much. I don't know if they're still made (bought mine ages ago), but might be worth a look at 2nd hand.
If you do want 360 degree capture, a pair of omni mics fairly close together will do it, or Mid-Sides with an omni and a figure-8 mic.
An omni is probably best, depending on the room.
I usually use a C414, but that is because I have them to hand.
There are loads of budget mics, if you aren't using this for release then just something decent will be fine.
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