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Re: ME66/MKH616 with omni mic

Subject: Re: ME66/MKH616 with omni mic
From: "Paul Jacobson" thebrunswicktwitcher
Date: Tue Feb 8, 2011 11:56 am ((PST))
On 09/02/2011, at 4:14 AM, Dan Dugan wrote:

> You will never regret buying an MKH-series mic.

Not true entirely I'm afraid.   I "traded up" from the ME66/K6 to an MKH-41=
6 and ended up wishing I'd kept the ME66. I sold the MKH416 not long after =
to fund a Telinga.
I found that the MKH416 was a nice mike BUT the lower sensitivity and highe=
r self, plus the typical MKH rising HF noise floor made the ME66 a better c=
hoice unless you could guarantee you were going to get a strong signal from=
 the sound source. It was a very nice sounding mic for recording voice howe=
ver.

I have one recording I made with the MKH416 that came out pretty nicely onl=
ine, but  a very large flock of feeding musk lorikeets is sufficiently loud=
 to make the higher self-noise a non-issue.

http://www.urbanbirder.com.au/victoria/musk-lorikeets-whroo

cheers
Paul





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