KOKKEDAL, Denmark—DPA Microphones has launched the brand new 2017 shotgun microphone, designed to seize genuine sound with excessive directionality even in excessive climate circumstances.
“In an business with a wide range of shotgun microphones, we constructed the 2017 to face out from the group,” mentioned Helga Volha Somava, product administration director at DPA Microphones.
“Measuring simply 184mm [7.24 inches] in size, the 2017 is extra compact than many well-liked options and nonetheless provides spectacular technological options. From its sturdy building and ease of use to its main acoustical properties, the 2017 can seize the power of any occasion. Whether or not it’s utilized in fastened positions at amenities or on digicam programs and booms, our purpose was to create a devoted, optimized broadcast and stay sound microphone that rivals the competitors and offers distinctive worth for professionals.”
Properly-suited for broadcast and stay occasions, the 2017 holds as much as journey and repeated use in harsh environments. It persists in humid circumstances and direct rain showers in addition to dry, arid environments, the corporate mentioned.
The microphone has been examined to be used in temperatures as much as 104 levels with 90% relative humidity and all the way down to 140 levels, it mentioned.
That includes a particularly designed capsule that’s paired with a cutting-edge interference tube and microphone grid, the 2017 provides excessive efficiency, each on- and off-axis. It has a excessive diploma of off-axis rejection, which allows the primary supply to face out. This closely attenuated off-axis audio is genuine and intensely usable for mixing into the whole soundscape, the corporate mentioned.
Audio professionals can now decide up correct, clear sounds from even essentially the most minute sources. For broadcasts that happen at quieter areas, the 2017’s low self-noise permits glorious a efficiency, even within the presence of many open microphones, it mentioned.
The versatile 2017 is straightforward to arrange and well-suited for fastened or booming functions in stay sports activities and information broadcasts in addition to in theaters on a FOH growth or fly bar, it mentioned.
Extra info is out there on the corporate’s web site.
