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    Sennheiser MK4?

    Anybody heard how this microphone sounds? I'm looking to get my first condenser for some recording, and I've got a connection that can get me some good deals on the Sennheiser line.
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    Re: Sennheiser MK4?

    Kap'n, I don't own this mic, but I think about every 300-or-so condenser from a big-name manufacturer will sound good, pretty much as full range, as flat, and as sensitive as any other.

    Compared to a mic I know intimately (Shure KSM32), specs on the MK4 show just a couple of significant differences: where the Shure shows a fairly flat low end, with a slight rise starting around 100hz, the MK4 rolls off the lows starting just above 100hz, as if the KSM32's lo-cut were always engaged. This might make the Sennheiser a good choice for guitars and female vocals.

    Also, instead of remaining flat up to 2.5 hz before going into that gentle upward slope you expect from a condenser mic, the Sennheiser exhibits a sizable hump around 1.5, a frequency most people would describe as harshness. Probably nothing you couldn't mitigate in channel.

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    Re: Sennheiser MK4?

    Thanks Jim. That's really useful.
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    Re: Sennheiser MK4?

    Good! Nice to be helpful sometimes. I don't want to be too flip about that hump in the high mids... I'd want to know that I could return the mic if it sounded a little "screechy" and EQ didn't smooth it.

    At the same time, I still expect it wouldn't be all that bad... And as im sure you know, subtractive EQ sounds better than trying to add freqs that aren't there.

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    Re: Sennheiser MK4?

    Yep. I should be able to try before buy.
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    Re: Sennheiser MK4?

    Kap'n
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