I've used several inexpensive condenser mics with mine to good effect in similar settings to what you've listed. For reasons I'm not aware of Fishman chose 24v phantom power for this amp. However, either of the mics I have used (MXL 910 and an sE X1A) worked fine. I tried each of them with the amp with an external power supply at the full 48v to see whether this changed anything. It seemed like I could get a bit more gain before feedback this way, but that may only have been confirmation bias on my part. Short answer: try it as it should work well. I haven't found a pickup solution in any of my acoustics that sounds as good as even a cheap condenser mic.
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