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.
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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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.
Thanks Jim. That's really useful.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
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.
Yep. I should be able to try before buy.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Kap'n
Here is Manufacturers spin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXRdvhRXm7E