e 602-II
microphone
$169
Used market: $130*
Specifications
2 of 8 values have a recorded source- Connectors
- XLR 3-Pin Male·
- Has Built In ADC
- no·
- Transducer Type
- Dynamic Moving Coil·
- Sensitivity dBV
- -72✓
- Output Impedance ohms
- 350·
- Phantom Power Required
- no·
- Connection Architecture
- XLR-Only·
- Updated At
- 2026-08-05T23:39:34.384Z·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal Profile
The cheap kick microphone of the evolution line: a large aluminium-bodied cardioid dynamic with a hum-compensating coil and a response that stops at 16 kHz because nothing above that is wanted from a bass drum.
Gain Staging Advice
Read the two sensitivities as one statement: 0.9 mV/Pa at 50 Hz and 0.25 mV/Pa at 1 kHz. The catalogue-comparable figure is the 1 kHz one, -72.0 dBV/Pa, and taken alone it is alarming; the mic is 11 dB louder at the frequency it is actually pointed at. Compare this against a kick mic measured only at 1 kHz and you will conclude the wrong thing about both.
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 (free field) 0.9 mV/Pa (at 50 Hz) 0.25 mV/Pa (at 1 kHz)»
Two sensitivities, 11.1 dB apart, for one microphone - the honest way to describe a capsule with a deliberate low-frequency shelf. It also means that any single number quoted for this model is incomparable with a microphone whose sheet gives only 1 kHz. Sennheiser does the same on the e 902 (0.6 mV/Pa at 60 Hz, 0.2 mV/Pa at 1 kHz); on the German-language e 902 sheet the row is headed 'Freifeldleerlauf Ubertragungsfaktor (1 kHz)' while listing a value measured at 60 Hz underneath it.
checked 8/6/2026* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~77% retained value). · checked on 8/6/2026