You should always tend to record vocals clean.
So no reverb, no compression, no EQ...nothing.
Afterworth you always can cut or add things.
Even with a 58 you can get good results. Ofcourse also depending on the treatment/gear quality after.
But yes agree on a condenser or tube mic.
For recording hi quality you need a good mic, a good preamp and good soundcard.
I always record thru a high quality TLa pre amp straight into DAW without any treatment, so you always have the original vocal to work on. After that i run it again thru the preamp but then with some tube saturation according to taste.
Run it back from the multitrack to my desk and do dynamics and FX from there.
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