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| Air chooses Sennheiser MKH 800. For a fuller frequency response. |
London’s internationally renowned AIR Studios has recently expanded its already impressive inventory of world class condenser microphones with the addition of several Sennheiser MKH range products. These include four of the company’s latest MKH 800 extended bandwidth models, featuring a unique 30 Hz – 50 kHz frequency response suitable for use with the latest high sampling rate recording techniques.
The order marks another vote of confidence in the superior sonic credentials of the world’s first commercially available studio condenser microphone to provide a frequency response in excess of the latest 24 bit / 96 kHz recording techniques supported by the latest DVD-A and SACD enhanced audio formats.
In response to client requests for a microphone of higher performance capabilities, and after consulting extensively with AIR engineering staff, Technical Manager Tim Vine-Lott made the decision to purchase two matched pairs of MKH 800s to enable simultaneous use in both the Hall and Studio One. The microphones have seen increasingly regular service since and Tim is pleased to confirm their growing popularity. ”The MKH800s get used on most classical and film scoring sessions we do. The mics are often used on remote stands to capture the orchestra and the impressive acoustics in our 19th century hall, and they’ve also recently seen action on a major classical vocal recording for EMI.”
However, people are sometimes initially sceptical of the MKH 800’s diminutive size: ”We do have people comment from time to time that they’re not looking for a ‘mic like that’ when we’re going over the choices in the mic cupboard,” explains Tim. ”The problem is that the MKH 800s don’t sound anything like they look and people are often looking for something physically bigger. It’s only when they hear the mic that they realise their assumptions were not entirely correct.”
The small body size of the MKH 800, like all the other models in the MKH series, provides a minimal acoustic signature and the inclusion of on-body selectable polar pattern, pad and filter controls makes the MKH 800 an exceptionally flexible microphone. The audiophile bandwidth is particularly suited to modern audio formats such as DVD-Audio and SACD that are capable of reproducing frequencies up to 48 kHz, at a sampling rate of 96 kHz; and as Tim states, ”It’s simply a great sounding mic.”
Editors’ Information:
Featuring exceptional frequency response and wide dynamic range, the new technologies employed in the Sennheiser MKH 800 provide a far more detailed and accentuated sound reproduction than can be reproduced via standard 16 bit CD audio.
To meet the latest high resolution / high bandwidth audio production, Sennheiser has endowed the MKH 800 with frequency response and dynamic range characteristics in excess of the latest 24 bit / 96 kHz standards. Its mechanical and acoustical design allows exceptionally detailed recordings of complex sound structures.
Careful design of the capsule and the acoustically interactive elements of the housing has reduced sound field interference at high frequencies to an absolute minimum. An LED helps to precisely direct the microphone at the sound source. Operating on the push-pull principle, the MKH 800 exhibits extremely low distortion and self-noise characteristics.
Five selectable pick-up patterns and switchable pre-attenuation, roll-off filter and HF emphasis controls further extend the microphone’s versatility.
Sennheiser's MKH RF condenser microphone series continues to not only represent the most "accurate" studio recording microphones available today, but also the only major technical development in studio condenser microphone technology since the advent of digital recording. Their extremely low self noise performance and linear frequency response, making them a preferred choice for highly detailed acoustic instrument and percussion
recording, as well as for orchestral sessions.
SENNHEISER UK
For further information:
Sally Milne
SENNHEISER UK LTD
Tel: + 44 (0) 1494 551 551
Editors’ Contact:
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