I've been testing some shotgun mics and investigating how the length impacts on their polar patterns at different frequencies. Some rotation of multiple mics, measurements and graphs!

I'm told by the Sennheiser distributor there are currently no stocks of 416 windsocks. RODE 's WSVM accessory windsock, compatible with the NTG1 & 2 and Videomic according to their website, looks like it might fit. However they don't seem to sell one compatible with the NTG3 which I gather is their direct competition to the 416.

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).

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.)...

The Sennheiser 416p (supercardioid shotgun mic) has a shockmount (the rycote one, used for booming) that,however you place the mic, covers a bit of the 'ribbed part' (the part with small openings)..
this must in a way compromise the directivity of the mic right?
It's a industry standard shockmount though..