Mojave Audio MA-1000DS

Drawing inspiration from some of yesterday’s most revered microphones, TECHNICAL GRAMMY® Award-Winning microphone designer David Royer has created a thoroughly modern tube microphone that features an original new old-stock 5840 tube, 251-style capsule, and custom designed transformer built by Coast Magnetics. The result? A sweet, airy top end, “you-are-there” realism in the mids and an accurate yet authoritative bottom end. This microphone excels on vocals and is a true workhorse mic that performs well on just about any source you can throw at it.

• TRANSDUCER TYPE: Externally polarized, pressure gradient capacitor – double diaphragm.
• DIAPHRAGM: 1-inch diameter, gold sputtered
• DIAPHRAGM THICKNESS: 3-microns
• POLAR PATTERN: Continuously variable from omnidirectional to figure-eight.
• FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 20 Hz to 20KHz ?3 dB
• SENSITIVITY: Omni -37.5 dB, Cardioid -36.0 dB, Figure-8 -34.0 dB re. 1V/pa
• MAXIMUM SPL: 120 dB with pad off, 135 dB with pad on.
• DISTORTION: < 1% @ 117 dB SPL , < 3% @ 125 dB SPL with pad off
  < 1% @ 132 dB SPL, < 3% @ 140 dB SPL with pad on
• SELF NOISE: 14dB nominal, not to exceed 16dB (A weighted)
• PAD: 15 dB
• BASS CUT: 6 dB per octave below 100 hertz.
• IMPEDANCE: 200 ?
• POWER REQUIREMENT: 6 VDC @ 150 mA. 125 VDC @ .7 mA
  (from dedicated power supply)
• DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT:
  Carrying case with microphone, power supply, shock mount and cables: 13 lbs. (5.9Kg)
  Microphone: 7 5/8” X 2” (194mm x 51mm), 1 lb. (0.45Kg)