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RODEProcaster

microphone

New retail price (MSRP)

$239

Used market: $185*

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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
-56✓
Output impedance
320✓
Phantom power required
no✓
Connection
XLR-Only✓
Indexable Locales
·

Expert Audio Engineering Commentary

Tonal profile

Broadcast dynamic, 75 Hz to 18 kHz - the low end is cut in the capsule itself, not by a switch, so there is no way to get it back.

Gain staging

-56.0 dBV/Pa (1.60 mV at 94 dB SPL) puts it 3 dB above an SM7B - close enough that interfaces which hiss on an SM7B will hiss here too. The 320-ohm output impedance and the 745 g mass both come from the same heavy internal capsule assembly.

Setups using this gear

FetHead or FetHead Phantom for a Rode Procaster? 27 dB against 18 dB, and why it changes nothing here

* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~77% retained value).