sE ElectronicsV7
microphone
New retail price (MSRP)
$99
Used market: $75*
Specifications
5 of 8 values have a recorded sourceExpert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal profile
Supercardioid handheld dynamic with an aluminium voice coil and a neodymium magnet; the aluminium coil is lighter than copper, which is where the extended top end comes from.
Gain staging
-54 dBV/Pa, 5 dB above an SM7B: the cheapest route to a hungry-dynamic sound that a bus-powered interface can still feed without a booster, though only barely. Output impedance is 300 ohms, high for a handheld dynamic, so avoid 1 kohm inputs.
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.
«Sensitivity | 2.0 mV/Pa (-54 dB)»
The parenthesis reads '-54 dB' with no reference stated. A decibel is a ratio and means nothing until you say a ratio to what: -54 dB re 1 V/Pa describes an ordinary dynamic microphone, while -54 dB re 1 V/microbar - the older scale still printed on vintage datasheets - would be 20 dB away and describe a completely different microphone. Here the arithmetic settles it: 2.0 mV/Pa is -53.98 dBV/Pa, so the intended reference is one volt per pascal and the figure is right. The omission still matters, because the same page template is used across sE's whole range, and a reader who compares '-54 dB' against a datasheet quoting the old scale will be off by a factor of ten in voltage.
checked 8/5/2026* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~76% retained value).