Re: MKH20/AT3032 comparisons (matching mics)

["Walter Knapp" waltknapp]

Posted by: "John Hartog"

> When purchasing AT3032s, what is the best way to assure ending up with
> a fairly well matched pair?

Buy a matched pair. I don't know if anyone is providing matched pairs,
but that's the first way I'd go about it. Check around and see if anyone
is doing matching. Starting with checking if AT packages matched pairs.

> When I bought my NT1As, I walked into the store, asked if they had a
> pair with sequential serial numbers, they did so I bought them, and I
> have never noticed any big difference between the two.

I'm not sure sequential serial number will guarantee a matched set. In
the case of NT1A's Rode does package matched sets, that's the way I got
my pair as a official matched set.

Note that matched pairs primarily match frequency response curves and
maybe polar patterns. I don't think that they match self noise levels if
it varies.

Walt