AT2035
microphone
$149
Used market: $115*
Specifications
5 of 8 values have a recorded sourceExpert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal Profile
Larger fixed-charge capsule than the AT2020, cardioid, 20 Hz to 20 kHz, with a switchable 10 dB pad and an 80 Hz high-pass.
Gain Staging Advice
-33 dBV/Pa, 4 dB hotter than the AT2020 and 26 dB above an SM7B. The useful detail is the phantom spec: 11 V to 52 V, so it still works off bus-powered interfaces whose phantom sags below 48 V - a failure mode that silently starves 48 V-only condensers.
What the datasheet actually says
Quoted verbatim from the manufacturer’s own page, with the date we checked it. We state what is printed, not what anyone intended by it.
«The AT2020 requires 11V to 52V phantom power for operation.»
This sentence sits in the AT2035 datasheet, under Operation and Maintenance, and names the wrong model — three paragraphs above, the same document says «The microphone requires 11V to 52V». The AT2020's own datasheet says «The AT2020 requires 48V phantom power for operation» and tabulates 48V DC, 2 mA. So two documents from one manufacturer disagree about one microphone, which is why both figures circulate. For the reader it matters: a bus-powered interface that sags below 48 V will quietly cost an AT2020 level, while an AT2035 keeps working down to 11 V.
checked 8/5/2026Setups using this gear
* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~77% retained value). · checked on 8/5/2026