Audio-Technica Condenser Microphone (AT5040)

Audio-Technica Condenser Microphone (AT5040) by Audio-Technica. Studio vocal microphone audio-technica’s Premier studio vocal microphone, The AT5040 represents a milestone in condenser design, offering remarkably musical high-fidelity performance, with profound realism and depth, presence and purity of sound. Designed as a first-choice vocal microphone, The AT5040 cardioid condenser features an extremely smooth top end with controlled sibilance. Large-diaphragm characteristics and fast transient response also make it designed for recording acoustic instruments such as piano, guitar, strings and saxophone. Four-part rectangular Element The first of our design criteria for the AT5040 was purity of sound. To achieve this, Audio-Technica engineers developed a four-part rectangular Element, The pinnacle of our recent breakthroughs in sound-capture technology. Four exquisitely matched ultra-thin diaphragms function together (with outputs proprietarily summed) as audio-technica’s largest-ever Element, providing combined surface area twice that of a standard one-inch circular diaphragm. By using four diaphragms in a single capsule, the AT5040 delivers the benefits of an exceptionally large diaphragm-alongg with an extremely low noise floor-withoutt increased weight, decreased transient response or other drawbacks that typically restrict diaphragm size. Another key AT5040 design feature is advanced internal shock mounting that effectively decouples the capsule from the microphone Body. For additional isolation, each AT5040 is also provided with audio-technica’s innovative new AT8480 shock mount. 100% quality control every AT5040 is hand assembled and individually inspected for 100% quality control.