Sennheisere 609 Silver
microphone
New retail price (MSRP)
$100
Used market: $80*
Specifications
2 of 8 values have a recorded source- Connectors
- XLR 3-Pin Male·
- Built-in converter
- no·
- Transducer
- Dynamic Moving Coil·
- Sensitivity
- -56.5✓
- Output impedance
- 350·
- Phantom power required
- no·
- Connection
- XLR-Only·
- Indexable Locales
- ·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal profile
A flat, side-address supercardioid designed to hang off the cabinet by its own cable rather than stand in front of it on a boom. That single mechanical decision is why it is on so many guitar cabs; the sound is a supercardioid dynamic with a lifted upper midrange.
Gain staging
1.5 mV/Pa, -56.5 dBV/Pa - half a decibel below an SM57 and, in front of a driven guitar speaker, entirely beside the point. The supercardioid pattern has a rear lobe: hanging the microphone in front of the cabinet puts that lobe into the room, which is where the drum kit is.
* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~80% retained value).