The Sennheiser MD 441 is a dynamic microphone with a super-cardioid polar pattern and a frequency response of 40-20,000 Hz. It has a double housing design that isolates the microphone element to reduce mechanical noise. Additional features include a presence boost switch, bass attenuation switch, and a windscreen to reduce pops and proximity effect for close miking. The MD 441 was designed to satisfy both performers and engineers with its critical reproduction capabilities and ease of use.
The Sennheiser MD 441 is a dynamic microphone with a super-cardioid polar pattern and a frequency response of 40-20,000 Hz. It has a double housing design that isolates the microphone element to reduce mechanical noise. Additional features include a presence boost switch, bass attenuation switch, and a windscreen to reduce pops and proximity effect for close miking. The MD 441 was designed to satisfy both performers and engineers with its critical reproduction capabilities and ease of use.
The Sennheiser MD 441 is a dynamic microphone with a super-cardioid polar pattern and a frequency response of 40-20,000 Hz. It has a double housing design that isolates the microphone element to reduce mechanical noise. Additional features include a presence boost switch, bass attenuation switch, and a windscreen to reduce pops and proximity effect for close miking. The MD 441 was designed to satisfy both performers and engineers with its critical reproduction capabilities and ease of use.
The Sennheiser MD 441 is a dynamic microphone with a super-cardioid polar pattern and a frequency response of 40-20,000 Hz. It has a double housing design that isolates the microphone element to reduce mechanical noise. Additional features include a presence boost switch, bass attenuation switch, and a windscreen to reduce pops and proximity effect for close miking. The MD 441 was designed to satisfy both performers and engineers with its critical reproduction capabilities and ease of use.
lf we didn't have such good condenser microphones, we'd be
worried. Because when it comes to performance, the MD 441 doesn't leave much to be desired. Especially when you consider it's not a condenser
microphone.
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The response curve may leave you uncertain, however.
Smooth and wide, extending from 40to 20,000 Hz. And a super-cardiod directional pattern whose traces at various frequencies lbok like an Olympic skater doing "school figures".
The MD 441. Beauty more than skindeep. Our design goal was ambitious: a microphone to satisfy performers and engineers alike. With remarkably critical reproduction . . . yet remarkably non-cdtlcal in use. One major problem: mechanical noise. While super-cardiod directionality is extremely desirable, previous dynamics of this type could not be hand-held because of mechanical noise and vibration conducted through the housing. However, in ihe MD 441, the problem is solved with a double housing. The microphone element, in an inner housing isolated by means of a compliant suspension, is shielded from mechanically conducted noise. Bringing studio'quiet' into the performer's hand. Depth. Presence. And absence. To make the MD 441 even more practical and flexibp we added three more features. The first two are presence and bass switches, which offer a 5 dBSoost at 5 kHz and, five-position atten0ation, repsectively, to selectively enhance.vocals and instrumentals, while preventing overemphasis of low frequencies. And, to provide opiimum close-miking, the MD 441 features an absence of pops and proximity effect, due to its novel pressure-gradient design and integral windscreen. We could tell you more about the remarkable new MD 441 dynamic microphone. But if it's good enough to almost worry us, using it will likely delight you.
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Technical Description The MD 441 dynamic microphone is a pressure-gradient receiver of advanced design, fea-
turing high d irection ality and
wide response. The d irectional pattern issupercardiod, virtually identical at frequencies of 250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 and 8000 Hz, featuring a high front-to-back ratio and no side lobes. The microphone exhibits a high degree ot insensitivity to mechanical noise caused by rubbing the housing against loreign objects, and stronger shocks. This is facilitated by means of a double hous-
ing. The inner housing, containing
the microphone element, is isolated from the outer housing by
means ol a highly compliant suspension, a principle proven in the
earlier Sennheiser 214 lavalier
microphone. To reduce pops and
wind noise+ the microphone is
equipped with an integral internal wind-screen, sullicient lor most applications. The MD 441 also features a built-in brilliance boost switch, providing a response rise that begins at 2000 Hz and is nominally -+5 db at 5 kHz, referred to the
Es pe c ially su itab le for handheld applications, the MD 441 has
highly linear .esponse throughout
the 40-20k Hz range, making it
especially suitable lor recording and performing applications where a combination of high directionality and extended response are desirable.
ln tests, lhe MD 441 was subjected to sound pressure levels
greatly exceeding the human pain threshold. While in some cases, the preamplifier overloaded, in no case did the microphone clip.
