Re: Another neophyte flailing around on this subject...

["Marinos Koutsomichalis" marinoskouts=]

omichalis
Date: Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:02 am ((PDT))


On 13 =CE=91=CF=85=CE=B3 2010, at 7:50 =CE=BC.=CE=BC., Dan Dugan wrote:

> Lower-impedance mic inputs are easier to make quieter, but otherwise low =
input impedance is a bad thing, so there's a trade-off. You'd like a mic to=
 be feeding an input that's many times its source impedance, so there's no =
loading effect and you get all the signal you can out of it. Unfortunately =
the actual source impedance of mics is often left out of the specifications=
 so it's hard to gauge the relationship of a particular mic to a particular=
 preamp's input.


so my fav MKH416 with nominal impedance @ 25 should be a good choice from t=
his point, right ? ;-}

m