NeumannTLM 49
microphone
New retail price (MSRP)
$1,795
Used market: $1,400*
Specifications
0 of 9 values have a recorded source- Connectors
- XLR 3-Pin Male·
- Built-in converter
- no·
- Self-noise
- 12·
- Transducer
- Condenser True·
- Sensitivity
- -38·
- Output impedance
- 50·
- Phantom power required
- yes·
- Connection
- XLR-Only·
- Indexable Locales
- ·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal profile
A K47-style large capsule in a warm, deliberately vintage-voiced body: gentle presence lift, no top-end sparkle, and a low-mid weight that flatters spoken voice and jazz vocals. -38 dBV/Pa with 12 dB-A of self-noise makes it a quiet microphone by any standard, but it is 9 dB quieter on output than a TLM 103.
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.
«Maximum SPL for THD 0.5% 110 dB / Maximum output voltage -1 dBu»
Two rows of the same table do not meet. -1 dBu is 0.69 V; a capsule rated 13 mV/Pa reaches 0.69 V only at about 128 dB SPL, not at the 110 dB SPL printed one row above. Read literally, 110 dB SPL would put the output at 82 mV, i.e. -19.5 dBu. One of the two numbers describes a different microphone state than the other, and the sheet does not say which.
checked 8/6/2026* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~78% retained value).