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"That
microphone has allowed for change in our approach to sound system
design in a lot of applications," reports Dugas, whose professional
audio-visual consulting, contracting and integration company has been
in operation since 1991. "When I'm working in a highly reverberant
environment or a situation where there are a lot of novice users and
operators, I go to this mic."
The Sennheiser ME 36 is a back-electret condenser microphone head that,
mounted on the MZH 3015 gooseneck, offers an unobtrusive and highly
directional solution to the challenges presented by a wide range of
speech applications. For Dugas and TSAV, the discovery of the
mini-shotgun microphone, which incorporates the proven ME 105 capsule
from Sennheiser's series of modular lavalier products, has been close
to a life-changing experience.
In particular, he says, the supercardioid pattern ME 36 is often the
only solution for certain voice-only applications. "In speech
reinforcement systems where the system is designed for constricted
bandwidth it's perfect. Not that the bandwidth of the mic is
constricted, but I can adjust it to the point where the gain before
feedback ratios are astronomically different than they are in a
traditional condenser microphone in that sort of application."
That has allowed TSAV to implement trouble-free speech reinforcement in
venues where the loudspeaker placement is far from ideal. For example,
offers Dugas, "We used them in a '70s-era convention hall at the
University of Georgia. The speaker cluster had been hung low over the
stage in order to shoot back into an area at the rear of the room and
the distance from the presenter's position to the cluster was 16 feet.
The speakers were "lobing" a little bit, and the only way for us to get
gain before feedback ratios that worked in most public speaking setups
(short of correcting the loudspeaker system design, which was cost
prohibitive for the project) was to use the ME 36."
TSAV installed a digital front-end to the system so that a preset could
be selected for full-bandwidth music applications. "But when it was a
speech-only situation and you had novice speakers, you would use the
Sennheiser microphone, click to another preset and it would bring up a
limited bandwidth setup," Dugas explains.
Similarly, he says, at the 180-year-old St. Joseph's Catholic Church in
Macon, Georgia, which has the highest dome on the east coast south of
Virginia and a RT60 measurement of just over five seconds, the ME 36
handled the close proximity to the loudspeakers with ease. "The line
arrays are about three and a half feet from the microphones. They're
throwing 120 feet. So at the microphone, the sound pressure level is
88dB in order to provide for adequate levels at the back of the room.
And the speaker has a 160-degree horizontal dispersion. You put any
other microphone up there and it would be difficult to make it work.
It's a great mic."
Established in 1945 in Wedemark, Germany, Sennheiser is the
acknowledged world leader in microphone technology, RF-wireless and
infrared sound transmission, headphone transducer technology, and most
recently, in the development of active noise-cancellation. Sennheiser
Electronic Corporation is the U.S. wholly-owned subsidiary, with
headquarters in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
CONTACTS
Jeff Alexander, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Pro Products
jalexander@sennheiserusa.com, (860) 434-9190
Antoinette Flosi, Publicity
tflosi@aadvert.com, (847) 998-0600
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