Sennheiser MKH 8020 Omni RF CondenserIn the last few years there's been a huge revival of interest in omni mics. From orchestral and music to location and wild life there's been a recognition that high quality omnis are one of the best tools in a sound recordists armoury. The reason is that in a sense there are only two polar diagrams - omnis and figure of eights. And everything else is a secondary construction based on these two primal polars. So Sennheiser offer one of the very best omnis availabe in the shape of their MKH 8020. With a bottom end reaching down to 10 Hz you want to be careful with these babies, but if you really need low end authority on a baby grand then form an orderly queue at the 8020 stall. Oh, and with the top end extending up to 60 KHz - you should be able to get most of Britain's 17 species of bats on tape. The 8020 features the Sennheiser RF condenser system, comes in the standard MKH 8000 livery and long lasting Nextel finish. - Dimensions 19 mm diameter, length 74 mm (41 mm excluding XLR module)
- Transducer principle RF condenser microphone
- Frequency response 10 - 60.000 Hz
- Weight 55g (25 g excluding XLR module)
- Phantom power required 48 V +/- 4V at 3.3mA
- Maximum sound pressure level 138 dB SPL
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