Mmm, MKH50...delicious...

shawneous said:
Come'on Dan, you're not actually going to agree with "The mkh50 (60) are painfully average sounding mics.". The mkh40/50/60 set are used on tons of high-end movies, they are respected in the industry along side the Schoepps, to say they are painfully average is such a colored personal opinion that doesn't really hold water with what goes on.
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colored personal opinion?
and what you say isnt your own "colored personal opinion"?


I stand by my statement as an owner of about 50 quality mics (studio and production) ranging from neumanns to lawson L47mps..to schoeps..to sennheisers...etc.


Sure, put an mkh60 next to a me-66 and its "above average"
put that 60 against "pro" mic's and it falls very short in MY OPINION.


I guess you failed to read the..to each his own line eh?

(day 6 of the film im currently on, schoeps 100% of the day today with some more difficult scenes through out)
 
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I would agree too with the Mkh series not being so "neutral sounding". I love the MKh 50 for it's all around quality and it's reliability. it sounds very well when you get it right on the sweet spot, but out of axis it becomes very "colored"
But that's not necessary a problem, sometimes you wants to increase the "out of axis effect"
Natural sound? Definitely Schoeps.
 
rafaeldelauz said:
I would agree too with the Mkh series not being so "neutral sounding". I love the MKh 50 for it's all around quality and it's reliability. it sounds very well when you get it right on the sweet spot, but out of axis it becomes very "colored"
But that's not necessary a problem, sometimes you wants to increase the "out of axis effect"
Natural sound? Definitely Schoeps.
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This is interesting, because I find the opposite and find the MKH very un-coloured off-axis - but then, my experience is with the MKH 20, 30, 40, 800 and 8040 and not the 50 or 60.

The Schoeps I find a tad "hard" - but having said this, I record classical music and don't do pictures.
 
SO it's safe to assume the NTG 3 wont be in a league with the fore mention mics (partciualrly the Sennheisers)
 
dantewaters said:
SO it's safe to assume the NTG 3 wont be in a league with the fore mention mics (partciualrly the Sennheisers)
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I've never used it, but from reputation I think it is.

You can't always go by cost, but in audio it seems especially true that "you get what you pay for", the Sanken is $1415 at B&H, so it's definitely in that $1300-$2000 range.
 
Wanted to get the NTG3 as my next audio purchase...
all I have now are my EW100s and I miss my ME66 (ended up missing Still figuring that one out).
 
The Ntg3 is a copy of the MKH416, one of the microphones with more colored off axis sound out there, but I haven't used it. I still doubt it we are talking about the same kind of sonic design here.
John, the MKh40 sounds very different than the MKh50 and it has smoother pattern to my ears.
 
shawneous said:
I've never used it, but from reputation I think it is.

You can't always go by cost, but in audio it seems especially true that "you get what you pay for", the Sanken is $1415 at B&H, so it's definitely in that $1300-$2000 range.
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I'm an idiot, ignore me. I somehow read 'CS3' instead.
 
416 requires much more skill to boom with, the sweet spot is much narrower than the MKH-60. Personally, I have never liked the 416, it was okay 20 years ago but I like the MKH-60 and the Sanken CS-3e much better for the money. The 416 can sound a bit thin to my ear.

Dan
 
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