If you are considering a shotgun/cardioid…

[Ty Ford]

Thanks for stopping by the Cow Audio Forum Dan,

That’s quite a lengthy piece you wrote. Very helpful. Thanks for stopping by. Hope you don’t mind. I would tweek it thusly;

[Will Salley]

Dan,
Thanks for the great information. I’m glad to see someone include the Beyer 836 in a review; it’s hugely popular in the UK but almost unknown here in the states. I just happened to have a friend at Beyer who recommended I try the mic, and as it turned out, it was an good recommendation. In addition to the excellent test that you performed on the mics in your review, I also like to compare the character of a certain boom / overhead mic to that of my favorite lav mic (in most cases a Countryman B6); and I think this is where the Beyer really shines. I have two other mics in your review – well almost – Schoeps Collette and the original Sennheiser 416 – both of which give better s/n ratios, off-axis, and high end response, but the Beyer matches the B6 incredibly well when cut together in post – something many location mixers don’t always think about. Although I still use the others regularly, I find the Beyer the go-to mic for most situations.

Again, Thanks for the great article.

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[Dan Brockett]

Hi Will:

I am so glad that you found the article helpful.

That is very good information since I am now working on a lavaliere review article. That is one of the things I would like to test, how well each lav intercuts with shotguns but without having each shotgun back (an impossibility I am afraid), I am not sure how to do tests for that. I guess I can record some of the lav samples with the same voice I used for the shotgun/cardioid tests in the same location and then set up some A/B clips in the timeline and output those for the review.

Yes, the Beyer is a good mic, it did pretty decently in almost all of the tests. They do not market the mic very well here in the U.S., I agree, most users here have barely ever heard of it.

Thanks for the kind words!

Dan