Hello

After recommendations here and elsewhere, I think I'll go for the Zoom H4N or the Tascam DR40 to record lectures, conferences, and interviews.

Everyone:
I'm looking for a shotgun capsule for my C451EB. I realize new gear that fits this AKG modular mic sustem is no longer made, but there are used mic capsules out there.

** Anyone have experience (positive or negative) with an AKG C9 or C8 shotgun capsule? **

Hi all, I've been thinking about starting my sound kit now for field recording and television and film sound recording. I've worked production sound on small projects as a sound mixer, boom op and at times both. I'm slowly building my sound kit I own a Zoom H4n and I want to get a shotgun mic to build my sound kit. My questions being...

Hey everyone, I got a Panasonic TM-700 for xmas and I really want to get a shotgun mic for it so I can have some solid audio quality to go along with the great video that it takes. I don't know what to look for at all so any help / models to compare would be greatly appreciated!

Shotgun microphones are the most highly directional. They have small lobes of sensitivity to the left, right, and rear but are significantly less sensitive to the side and rear than other directional microphones. This results from placing the element at the end of a tube with slots cut along the side; wave cancellation eliminates much of the off-axis sound.

It is obvious that the most common application for shotgun mics is video, but does anyone use them for recording anything in the studio of a musical nature?

Hello -- I'm new to the forums and my Sennheiser MKH416T just died.

It's been in a cabinet for over a year, hardly used at all (it's about 5 years old, I bought it used and tested it when I bought it from a Hollywood Sound guy -- worked fine then).

Is there a purpose for shotgun mics in an audio recording studio, and if so, what is it?

It is worth noting that I know what a shotgun mic is for. I am just curious if they have found niche roles in some studios.

We need some shotgun mics to record a film. There is a limited budget of about 1g for audio equipment. Can anyone recommend some shotguns that will play well with a purely transistor-based preamp in the 300 dollar range? Thanks for any suggestions.

I have never, knowingly, used this actual mic for VO? I may have? There you go. Just to clarify. No knowledge.

Some apparently "big time" LA VO guy says, on his website(From a recent VOB post), that he has one of these available along with unspecified LDC's, if needed for use in his own VO studio... Got me thinking(A rarity, yes, thankyou.)...