The MD 441.

So good it almost worried us.

If we didn't have such good condenser microphones, we'd be worried. Because when it comes to performance, the MD 441 doesn't leave much to be desired. Especially when you consider it's not a condenser microphone.

The response curve may leave you uncertain, however. Smooth and wide, extending from 40 to 20,000 Hz. And a super-cardioid directional pattern whose traces at various frequencies look like an Olympic skater doing "school figures".

The MD 441. Beauty more than skin-deep. Our design goal was ambitious: a microphone to satisfy performers and engineers alike.

With remarkably critical reproduction ... yet remarkably non-critical in use.

One major problem: mechanical noise. While super-cardioid directionality is extremely desirable, previous dynamics of this type could not be hand-held because of mechanical noise and vibration conducted through the housing. However, in the MD 441, the problem is solved with a double housing. The microphone element, in an inner housing isolated by means of a compliant suspension, is shielded from mechanically conducted noise. Bringing studio 'quiet' into the performer's hand.

Depth. Presence. And absence. To make the MD 441 even more practical and flexible, we added three more features. The first two are presence and bass switches, which offer a 5 dB boost at 5 kHz and five-position attenuation, respectively, to selectively enhance vocals and instrumentals, while preventing 'overemphasis of low frequencies. And, to provide optimum close-miking, the MD 441 features an absence of pops and proximity effect, due to its novel pressure-gradient design and integral windscreen.

We could tell you more about the remarkable new MD 441 dynamic microphone. But if it's good enough to almost worry us, using it will likely delight you.

Sennheiser ELECTRONIC CORPORATION

10 West 37th Street, New York, N Y. 10018

Manufacturing Plant: Bissendorf, Hannover, West Germany

(Audio magazine, Mar. 1973)

Also see:

Sennheiser Electronic Corporation (ad, Nov. 1984)

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