With voices, acoustic guitars, woodwind instruments and piano, the C4000B was able to extract the sound I was searching for very well. Its accurate polar patterns were a great asset in minimising spill during multi‑miking sessions, and its smooth and even frequency response portrayed instruments...
AKG’s product literature for the DX11 claimed a frequency response of 50Hz to 18kHz, which seems a little optimistic. In practice, it has an obvious roll‑off below 150Hz or so, which probably suits its intended role as a vocal mic, and a midrange presence peak that is fairly typical...
The AKG D19. I own one of these, and I have used it on a few tracks…nice for low-fi-ish hard-strumming steel-string acoustic gtr. Based on my experience, I feel like the stated claim of 40-16k hz response is extremely optimistic. The D19 shows up in a few places in music his...
The first AKG microphone to make use of the new technology was the D12. Introduced in 1953, the D12 was the world's first dynamic cardioid mic, that is, it had a "unidirectional" design that served to reduce the amplification of extraneous sound and the production of feedback. The mic...