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sE ElectronicsV7 X

microphone

New retail price (MSRP)

$99

Used market: $75*

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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
-53.98✓
Output impedance
300✓
Phantom power required
no✓
Connection
XLR-Only✓
Indexable Locales
·

Expert Audio Engineering Commentary

Tonal profile

The instrument version of sE's V7: same aluminium voice coil and neodymium magnet, capsule retuned for cabinets and drums rather than for a hand-held vocal, supercardioid, 30 Hz - 19 kHz.

Gain staging

sE publishes '2.0 mV/Pa (-54 dB)'. The millivolt figure is unambiguous and converts to -53.98 dBV/Pa, which is what we store; the bare '-54 dB' names no reference, and here it happens to coincide with dBV. That is 2 dB hotter than an SM57 on the same guitar cabinet. The 300 ohm output wants an input of 2 kilohms or better.

* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~76% retained value).