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...
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...