I had a chance to talk to a Sennheiser rep at BVE yesterday and have an update on their VR mic. How much of this is gospel, I don’t know, but they seem intent on reinventing the wheel in many ways.
1) It will be a tetrahedral array: the pictures that some have seen with a different capsule arrangement are of an early prototype. 2) It will deliver A-Format signals from electret capsules. 3) The current prototype has similarities to the TetraMic in that it uses an unbalanced cable to a break-out system. The final version will incorporate (I guess) preamps, powering and balancing in the body of the mic. Connector is yet to be decided, put my guess is Lemo for size and contact numbers 4) They are in discussion with Rycote over suspension mount and windshield. 5) They are developing their own suite of software. He seemed somewhat surprised when I mentioned what was already available... 6) Price yet to be decided, but somewhere between UK£1,200 and 1,800, depending on what finally goes in the kit. 7) Release date September-ish this year (Just in time for IBC, probably.) Regards, John Please note new email address & direct line phone number email: j...@johnleonard.uk phone +44 (0)20 3286 5942 > On 25 Jan 2016, at 15:31, mgra...@mstvp.com wrote: > > > > --------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [Sursound] Sennheiser Easy > 3D Recording and Modeling > From: "David Pickett" <d...@fugato.com> > Date: 1/25/16 8:08 am > To: "Surround Sound discussion group" <sursound@music.vt.edu> > > At 14:21 25-01-16, Courville, Daniel wrote: >> >> http://www.videomaker.com/videonews/2016/01/best-microphone-of-ces-201 >> 6-sennheiser-vr-mic >> >> This says four caps. OK. >> > > If that's the case, it looks like a copy of the SF Mike. How can the > article say: "This is the first VR Mic we've seen..." ? _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
