ShureKSM32
microphone
New retail price (MSRP)
$999
Used market: $780*
Specifications
1 of 9 values have a recorded source- Connectors
- XLR 3-Pin Male·
- Built-in converter
- no·
- Self-noise
- 13·
- Transducer
- Condenser Electret✓
- Sensitivity
- -36·
- Output impedance
- 150·
- Phantom power required
- yes·
- Connection
- XLR-Only·
- Indexable Locales
- ·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal profile
A 3/4-inch permanently-biased cardioid in a cast body with an internal shock mount: flatter and less hyped than the LDCs it sits beside, with a -15 dB pad and a two-slope low cut. The guide is a real PDF at pubs.shure.com; the same address without .pdf returns an empty shell.
Gain staging
-36 dBV/Pa with 13 dB SPL-A is a balanced pair of numbers - no heroics either way. It works down to 11 V of phantom with reduced headroom, which matters on field recorders more than in a studio.
* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~78% retained value).