Sennheiser MKH 416-P48U3
RF condenser short shotgun microphone
Microphone$999Manufacturer list price
Specifications
- Type
- Microphone
- Description
- RF condenser short shotgun microphone
- Topology
- condenser (RF/true condenser)
- Signal path
- Analog
- Channels
- 1
- Channel format
- mono
- Form factor
- shotgun (boom/camera-mounted)
- Frequency response
- 40 Hz - 20 kHz
- Max SPL
- 130 dB
- Sensitivity
- 25 mV/Pa +/- 1 dB
- Polar pattern
- supercardioid, transitioning to lobar above ~2 kHz
- Impedance (Ω)
- 25
- Country of manufacture
- Germany
Details
I/O: XLR-3 output
Notable use: Film/TV/broadcast standard shotgun mic; widely used in ENG and location sound
Notes: CAP FLAG: the MKH family is larger than covered here; catalog capped to the models named in scope (416, 8040/8050/8060/8070, 50). Additional current MKH 8000-series variants (8020 omni, 8030 figure-8, 8090 wide-cardioid, 8018 stereo shotgun) plus MKH 800 TWIN, MKH 418-S stereo shotgun, and MKH 30 were found to exist but excluded here for breadth. Price is Sweetwater street price (bare mic).