Re: Strange results with mkh 20?

["Eric Benjamin" <>]

"Romilly Hambling" wrote
> our recording sessions with a
> a hired pair of Sennheiser mkh 20s (omnis)
> and am totally baffled by the poor quality.

Romilly,

Without having the mics at hand for instrumented testing, I can only say
that it sounds to me as though the mikes are busted (that's American for
"don't work properly").  I would take them back to the hire shop and demand=

my money back.  Then use the AT3032s.

In a side-by-side simultaneous recording with two Schoeps MK2s, we found th=
e
AT3032s to be nearly indistinguishable from the Schoeps.  The Schoeps was
slightly preferred unless things were really quiet, at which point the
AT3032s were preferred.  The difference was extremely subtle.

Eric