Product Details
Overview
The cardioid MKH 8040 is suitable for almost any application. It considerably reduces pick-up of a reverberant room. This is very helpful in rooms with poor acoustics or when disturbing sounds impinge mainly from the rear.
Features
- Cardioid pick-up pattern
- Modular design
- Wide frequency response 30 to 50.000 Hz
- Symmetrical transducer with 2 backplates providing extremly low distortion
- Extremly low inherent self-noise
- Aaccurate directional pattern
- Non reflective Nextel coating
- Ideal as a spot microphone and for surround recordings
- Also available in stereo pairs
Specifications
| Dimensions | Ø 19 mm, L 41 mm (74 mm with XLR module) |
| Frequency response | 30 - 50000 Hz |
| Weight | 25 g (55 g with XLR module) |
| Audio output | XLR-3M balanced, transformerless, floating |
| Sensitivity in free field, no load (1kHz) | 20 mV/Pa (-34 dBV/Pa) |
| Nominal impedance | 25 Ohms |
| Min. terminating impedance | 1000 Ohms |
| Phantom powering | 48 V +/- 4 V |
| Equivalent noise level | 13 dB |
| Equivalent noise level weighted as per CCIR 468-3 | 22 dB |
| Maximum sound pressure level (passiv) | 142 dB SPL |
| Current consumption | 3,3 mA |
