This is the best microphone comparison test I've come across. Excellent and methodical. Been looking to see if I can improve my interior audio and I think I have a way forward!
I have to thank you for this video, and the accompanying files (which I've yet to download). This really helps to identify characteristics of the mics and I've found it tremendously useful in potential pairing of interior and exterior microphones based on their matching characteristics. I own the 8060 and the 4017c and used many of the others, and I think the cs3e is one of my new favourites. Thanks for taking the time to do this. If you ever do another test, consider adding an MKH8050 and DPA 4018c to the pile as they are alternate indoor microphones that pair well with mics in these tests. Cheers and thanks again
Very helpful, thank you! Just one thing - you always stopped talking right before the MKH50... :'D Most of the times in the 2nd/3rd round, but in your last test we didn't get to hear the 50 and 5u
Great sounding microphones, I especially liked the MKH50. I thought the DPA 4017b has sounded consistently good through all your location examples as well, though a little muddy in some of the reverberate rooms. The cmc641 sounds good as well, but I kind of prefer the colored crispness of the MKH50. I think the MKH50 and 416 would pair really well for indoor/outdoor, and the cmc641 with the DPA or CMiT5u would pair together well too just based on the sound. I wanted to like the MKH8060, but it just sounds a bit too thin compared to the rest of the microphones, without really a pleasing high end. That said the MKH8060 is suppose to have a lower self noise, better off axis coloration, better avoidance of phase issues indoors, and a frequency response up to 25kHz, which means that microphone would probably fair better than say the MKH416 for field recording sound effects, or difficult to boom situations such as multiple speakers. The CS3e to me had a weird low mid thing going on that I didn't like.
Chris Fuchs I would encourage you to rent the 8060 and 416 and try them together. As an 8060 owner I highly recommend it, and find it handles off-axis dialogue when cueing between actors slightly more naturally than the 416. Also weight and length are diminutive by comparison, all handy to consider
Thanks alot for doing these tests for all of us sound ppl :) I can't seem to find the files it seems that the website is offline . Any other way to get them ? Many thanks Nati
The audio levels don't sound the same. On my speakers the 416 is considerably louder than the 8060 - which may explain why the noise floor seems to be louder.
Hi Peter, great work, very instructive! I wanted to download the files and went over at the site shown in your description, but apparently the whole site is no more online? Is there any other place where the files could be downloaded? Thank you very much.
well done. however, the visual on audio levels definitely does not match what we are hearing. CS3 always seemed to be one of the quieter ones, but the noise level visually seemed higher. i am wondering if something else..
I’ve been using 416 for long time. I’m so surprised how 8060 sounds way more open/natural yet rejecting the environment noise as well as or better than 416…
This is the best microphone comparison test I've come across. Excellent and methodical. Been looking to see if I can improve my interior audio and I think I have a way forward!
Thanks a lot for your excellent microphone review tests. Very good work!
I have to thank you for this video, and the accompanying files (which I've yet to download). This really helps to identify characteristics of the mics and I've found it tremendously useful in potential pairing of interior and exterior microphones based on their matching characteristics. I own the 8060 and the 4017c and used many of the others, and I think the cs3e is one of my new favourites. Thanks for taking the time to do this. If you ever do another test, consider adding an MKH8050 and DPA 4018c to the pile as they are alternate indoor microphones that pair well with mics in these tests. Cheers and thanks again
seriously, bravo. well done, the test i needed
thank you for the comparison!
Quality test, well done!!
Great work! And thank you for providing the files!
Very helpful, thank you! Just one thing - you always stopped talking right before the MKH50... :'D Most of the times in the 2nd/3rd round, but in your last test we didn't get to hear the 50 and 5u
Brilliant! Great real-world tests.
Great sounding microphones, I especially liked the MKH50. I thought the DPA 4017b has sounded consistently good through all your location examples as well, though a little muddy in some of the reverberate rooms. The cmc641 sounds good as well, but I kind of prefer the colored crispness of the MKH50. I think the MKH50 and 416 would pair really well for indoor/outdoor, and the cmc641 with the DPA or CMiT5u would pair together well too just based on the sound. I wanted to like the MKH8060, but it just sounds a bit too thin compared to the rest of the microphones, without really a pleasing high end. That said the MKH8060 is suppose to have a lower self noise, better off axis coloration, better avoidance of phase issues indoors, and a frequency response up to 25kHz, which means that microphone would probably fair better than say the MKH416 for field recording sound effects, or difficult to boom situations such as multiple speakers. The CS3e to me had a weird low mid thing going on that I didn't like.
Chris Fuchs I would encourage you to rent the 8060 and 416 and try them together. As an 8060 owner I highly recommend it, and find it handles off-axis dialogue when cueing between actors slightly more naturally than the 416. Also weight and length are diminutive by comparison, all handy to consider
That's a good point! I'll have to compare them sometime.
the 8060 sounds little thinner when compared to the 416, but I like the length and I can also add bottom-end eq in the post.
That's helpful, thank you.
Very precise!
Thanks alot for doing these tests for all of us sound ppl :)
I can't seem to find the files it seems that the website is offline .
Any other way to get them ?
Many thanks
Nati
The audio levels don't sound the same. On my speakers the 416 is considerably louder than the 8060 - which may explain why the noise floor seems to be louder.
Hi Peter, great work, very instructive! I wanted to download the files and went over at the site shown in your description, but apparently the whole site is no more online? Is there any other place where the files could be downloaded? Thank you very much.
hey man love your comparisons! Is there any chance to get an updated download Link for the iso tracks?
cheers
Hello, I found a brand new mkh416 for 790 euro and a dpa 2017 (new dpa release) for 930 euro.
Would you go for the dpa even tho is 140 more expensive?
scheops cmit 5u sounded very very natural! no artificial sounding stuff going on! so expensive thou
well done. however, the visual on audio levels definitely does not match what we are hearing. CS3 always seemed to be one of the quieter ones, but the noise level visually seemed higher. i am wondering if something else..
first thanks u a lot...one suggestion top mic is hard to really listen
lower noise with both schoeps and dpa as well
I’ve been using 416 for long time. I’m so surprised how 8060 sounds way more open/natural yet rejecting the environment noise as well as or better than 416…
Perfect. Thanks so much for this :-)
some of these mic have LPF filters...
who knows what types of microphones they use in sitcoms, e.g. The Big Bang Theory? I will be grateful for the rest of my life;)
sm57
That Top brand makes rubbish mics! 👎🏻👎🏻
Schoeps is the best indoor recording. 5u
Would be a high quality recording outdoors