Re: AKG D900 shotgun

["Lou Judson" inaudio]

Dynamic mics have no self-noise, just a low output level so when you
turn up the preamp gain you get more preamp noise.

I assume you meant "quite noisy" not quiet noisy...

Why? Because they could, I suppose. No idea what they used the D900
for. Basically it is obsolete for our purposes here. There was a time
when phantom power was the exception rather than the rule, and
condenser mics were large and heavy...

<L>

On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:15 AM, xavier Briche wrote:


I used this microphone in live application and it was quiet noisy
which is logical for a dynamic (Maybe the microphone was faulty).
I'd be interested to find out  what type of  recordings were made
using the 900 and why using a dynamic rather than a condenser or
electret.