Shure SV100
This is a cheap, simple dynamic microphone that is nevertheless quite nice. There is a post of a French sound engineer cursing the cable that Shure supplies with the SV100. To tell you the truth, it's never been used, here it's a home-baked silver-plated copper cable terminated with XLR and wired unbalanced, same as the Shure cable.
"SV" might mean "special value", which is marketese for "cheap budget make". It is. It's a simple dynamic capsule enclosed in a metal tube with an on/off switch. Some folks curse the switch, saying it's a possible failure weakness. It is, obviously, but so far it's never failed, and anyway it's trivial to rewire the thing should the switch ever fail, throwing the switch out or just wiring past it.
Sound-wise it's a simple dynamic with a kind of a warm emphasis on low midrange, a fairly slight bass proximity effect, etc. The issue with the SV100 is its frequency response, which has a nasty rise past 2 KHz, centred on 6 KHz. Obviously this is done to boost presence for voice, and the SV100 also has a highpass cut starting at around 200 Hz, to minimise rumble.
Once you correct its frequency response with a good equaliser (software or hardware), the SV100 takes sound rather nice. It's nothing to write home about it, it's fairly coarse in the middle/upper midrange, and the SV100 diaphragm is nowhere as sensitive as, say, Shure Beta 56 or AKG D-40, but it's useful for the bigger, coarser bass drums, bassier bongos, and as an exhaust pickup microphone for congas, etc. If you've got something big with lots of airflow, it works nicely.
The SV100 is not very sensitive to airflow, so you can just insert it into a big bass drum. All instrument recording had always been done with the head mesh taken off, this helps improve detail, and after all, since there's no spit or plosives from a singer, the mesh isn't really needed.
It's also worked nicely for coarse-grain maracas, though the maracas had to be swung straight into the exposed capsule. The SV100 is fairly insensitive, but then that can be a plus, as it won't easily record handmade wind even without a windshield.
Price is also a bonus, you can find one for $25-30 or thereabouts. Now of course this isn't a D112, but it works for some purposes, or as a backup "disposable" microphone.
http://www.freesound.org/people/Seidhepriest/sounds/170918/ - a huge bass drum recorded with an SV100. This is equalised to compensate for its natural highpass and HF/midrange rise.