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Re: Re: mic check

Subject: Re: Re: mic check
From: Rob Danielson <>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:32:29 -0500
At 9:11 AM -0700 8/30/05, umashankar wrote:
>why not look a dynamics? microphones like the
>sennheiser md421 and the beyer m88 are extremely low
>noise. they are low output so you need very high
>quality preamps, but they are much quieter than any
>condensors,

That's an interesting possibility. Cardioid. Sennhesier doesn't state
self noise on the spec sheet for the mD 421 (a rares spec for
dynamics now that I think of it).  A side by side test comparing the
MD-421 with a low noise condenser at maximum gain would be very
useful. Rob D.



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Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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