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fifthcircle · 5th February 2009

I'm going with 8040's over my Schoeps about 70% of the time these days. Highly recommended microphones.

If you use them, however, you MUST have good shock mounts. The huge low end on them makes them very susceptible to structure-bourne noise, or vibrations from any number of sources that come up the stand. The best mounts on the market for them currently are the Rycote Invision mounts. They'll cost you a few bucks, but it is definitely worth it.

As much as I like DPA 4011 mics, the problem with them is that they don't image from front to back that well. Left-Right is amazing, but I miss some of the depth in larger ensembles. The Sennheisers have some of the best "reach" of any mic that I've used.

--Ben

5th February 2009	#4
fifthcircle Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,322	I'm going with 8040's over my Schoeps about 70% of the time these days. Highly recommended microphones. If you use them, however, you MUST have good shock mounts. The huge low end on them makes them very susceptible to structure-bourne noise, or vibrations from any number of sources that come up the stand. The best mounts on the market for them currently are the Rycote Invision mounts. They'll cost you a few bucks, but it is definitely worth it. As much as I like DPA 4011 mics, the problem with them is that they don't image from front to back that well. Left-Right is amazing, but I miss some of the depth in larger ensembles. The Sennheisers have some of the best "reach" of any mic that I've used. --Ben __________________ Benjamin Maas Fifth Circle Audio Long Beach, CA http://www.fifthcircle.com