Hi Bernie,
and thanks for the feedback. I hoped you might have looked into this one
already! ;-)
I did notice a big difference in the noise specs of the 418, coupled with
the fact that it is a low impedence, unbalanced output (XLR 5). Guess I'll
save my pennies.
Any suggestions about the M/S monitoring situation? Of course I can do the
encoding in post-production, but for monitoring from an M/S setup to a
recorder without an M/S encoder, I guess I'll need something in the
middle. Do any of the decent preamps out there do this? Other suggestions
that anyone has tried?
derek
> Back in the spring/summer of 04, we tested the 418 and found it
> useful for radio/tv production but not for ambient
> soundscapes...particularly of the natural kind. Main problem was that
> it was way too noisy for some of the subtler detail extant in the
> natural world.
>
> Stick with the MKH 30 combined with a MKH 40, 50 or 60.
>
> Bernie Krause
>
>>Has anyone here had a chance to demo the Sennheiser MKH 418-s? It's a
>>stereo, mid-side hypercardiod/shotgun mike, and I'm wondering how
>>favorably it compares to an MKH 30/60 M/S combo.
>>
>>The benefits I see are that you have one mike instead of two (weight
>>reduction), with a built-in M/S encoder so you can go straight to preamp
>>or recorder. And it retails in Europe for EUR 1290, whereas the 30/60
>>combo will set you back EUR 1288 (MKH 30) + EUR 1379 (MKH 60) for new
>>ones, not including clips to connect them and an M/S encoder if you want
>>to properly monitor them.
>>
>>But I wonder why the 418-s is more "budget" and where the corners got
>> cut.
>>I see in the spec a 40-20000 Hz frequency response (less range than an
>> MKH
>>60?), and it isn't labelled "extremely low self-noise" the way the other
>>MKH ones are, so that could be a pinch point.
>>
>>Feedback on this one? I could have a chance to buy an MKH 60 for about
>>half retail, which makes me a bit more torn between the two options! ;-)
>>
>>derek
>>
>>
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>>
>>"Microphones are not ears,
>>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>>A listening room is not nature."
>>Klas Strandberg
>>Yahoo! Groups Links
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
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> Klas Strandberg
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