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Re: [gear] noise calculator - was inexpensive field recorder

Subject: Re: [gear] noise calculator - was inexpensive field recorder
From: "Lou Judson" inaudio
Date: Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:32 pm (PDT)
Definitely a mistake somewhere - I have a VP-88, and while I cannot
compare to the others, it is far  from that low sensitivity. Someone
other than the manufacturer need to measure it

Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Sep 28, 2006, at 1:53 PM, stoatwizard wrote:

> --- In  "Danny Meltzer"
> <> wrote:
>>
>> SHURE says:
>>
>> "Sensitivity (1 kHz, MS mode)
>>     Open Circuit Voltage: -66 dB (0.5 mV) Mid. (Side level 1.6 dB
>> higher than Mid level) (0 dB=3D1 V/Pa)"
>>
>> The .5 is only for the MID element...there is the SIDE element too.
>
> The mic elements are usually tackled separately (such as you would for
> a MKH30/40 combo) - what is puzzling is that this is shockingly low
> compared to almost anything else. For all the others sensitivity ranges
> between 10-50 mV/Pa, and the VP88 rolls in at a twentieth of the lowest
> of the others - I'd expect that to give real problems in using it. It's
> so odd it has to be a mistake somewhere.




"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg

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