The 18" long Sennheiser MKH 8070 is for focused, top-tier audio capture in high-pressure outdoor environments such as sporting events and broadcast production. With extreme directivity, drastically low self-noise, and ultrahigh sensitivity, the MKH 8070 delivers professional sonic performance that's ready for mixing.
This shotgun microphone exhibits a pronounced lobar polar pattern, ensuring a consistently narrow focus and transparent, undistorted off-axis tone. Its wide frequency response, transformerless output, and high SPL handling let you record the action with uncompromised clarity.
Sennheiser MKH 8070 Features
- Lobar pick-up pattern
- Enhanced directivity
- Very natural sound
- Uncolored off-axis sound
- Exceptionally low inherent self-noise
- Extremely low distortion
- Transformerless and fully floating balanced output
- High output signal
- Rugged metal housing
- Non-reflective Nextel® coating
- Extremely weather-proof due to RF circuit• Nextel® • Becomes a digital mic when combined with the MZD 8000 digital module
- Timbrally identical with the other 8000-series microphones for optimum aural compatibility
- MKH 8070 Long Shotgun Microphone1
- Microphone clip1
- Foamwindshield1
- Threaded transport tube1
- User manual1
- Transducer TypeCondenser
- Polar PatternLobar
- Frequency Response45 Hz - 20 kHz
- Output Impedance25 ohms
- Sensitivity in free field, no load (1kHz)112 mV/Pa (-19 dBV/Pa)
- Phantom powering48 V +/- 4 V
- Equivalent noise level8 dB
- Equivalent noise level weighted as per CCIR21 dB
- Max SPL (passive)124 dB SPL
- Current consumption3,3 mA
- Audio outputXLR-3M balanced, transformerless, floating
