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Electro-VoiceRE320

microphone

New retail price (MSRP)

$299

Used market: $235*

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Specifications

5 of 8 values have a recorded source
Connectors
XLR 3-Pin Male·
Built-in converter
no·
Transducer
Dynamic Moving Coil✓
Sensitivity
-52✓
Output impedance
150✓
Phantom power required
no✓
Connection
XLR-Only✓
Indexable Locales
en·

Expert Audio Engineering Commentary

Tonal profile

Variable-D cardioid with a two-position voicing switch: a kick-drum curve with a scooped low-mid, and a flatter general curve for voice and instruments. The two curves are not a tone shaping nicety - they change the published frequency range from 30 Hz to 45 Hz at the bottom.

Gain staging

Electro-Voice publishes output only as 2.5 mV/Pa; -52.0 dBV/Pa is that number converted, not a second measurement. That puts the RE320 4.5 dB above its own sibling the RE20 and 7 dB above an SM7B - it is a broadcast dynamic that does not actually starve a modern interface.

Setups using this gear

Electro-Voice RE320 with an sE DM1 Dynamite on a MOTU M4: 51 dB needed, 60 available — so why add 28 more?

* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~79% retained value).