Sennheiser MKH40 Condenser Microphone
Sennheiser MKH40 Condenser Microphone
The MKH 40 has a large number of applications, for example as a main microphone, especially in lightly reverberant or acoustically less perfect rooms, with instrumental groups or for speech applications. Its wide-angled, neutral directional characteristics and high level of reverse attenuation ensure an exceptionally balanced sound.
Features:
- Maximum front-to-back ratio
- Exceptionally low inherent self-noise
- Symmetrical transducer technology ensures extremely low distortion
- Transformerless and fully floating balanced output
- Switchable roll-off filter to compensate for proximity effects at a distance of approx. 0.5 m
- Switchable pre-attenuation
- Black, anodized light metal body
Specifications:
- Dimensions: Ø 25 x 153 mm
- Frequency response (Microphone): 40 – 20000 Hz
- Transducer principle (Microphone): RF condenser microphone
- Pick-up pattern: cardioid
- Sensitivity in free field, no load (1kHz): 25 mV/Pa +-1 dB
- Nominal impedance: 150 Ω
- Min. terminating impedance: 1000 Ω
- Equivalent noise level: 12 (18) dB
- Equivalent noise level weighted as per CCIR: 21 (27) dB
- Maximum sound pressure level (passive): 134 (142) dB / 1 kHz
- Current consumption: 2 mA
- Battery Specification: 48 +- 4 V Phantom
