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Category: Microphones for ham radio

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Review Summary For : Deity S-Mic 2S
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Short length shotgun condenser microphone The S-Mic 2 is a professional short shotgun that was designed for the video productions of today. We spent the last year talking with working professionals and gathering their input when we made the S-Mic 2S. The boom operators of today demand a shorter, lighter microphone with a slightly wider pickup pattern for multi-talent scenes. This makes the S-Mic 2S perfect for things like reality TV crews, indoor sit down interviews, and indie filmmaking.
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KC2RGW Rating: 2020-10-05
An interesting alternative, not for all Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
This mic is a short pattern, shotgun condenser microphone. It will require a phantom power source and also I would say it also requires external processing gear.

The pattern is super cardioid and one of the main advantages it offers is a forgiving "bubble" or sweet spot to talk in without varying the tonal quality. This microphone is not meant to be talked very close. I would say 6" or so is a good spot. It allows you to move your head around freely without having the audio quality shift as much as a dynamic mic will.

The microphone being physically narrow has a lower visual profile in front of you vs one of the large diaphragm dynamic or large diaphragm condenser mics.

In a quiet shack you could run this microphone a solid distance (say a foot or two) from you as well as it's quite directional, but in a noisy shack it has pretty good off axis rejection and you can run the input gain nice and low and work it closer in at 4-6" or so.

This microphone has a pretty hot bottom and low-mid range response and that exaggerates a lot with proximity. If you have a lot of low frequency response in your voice you will need to drop it out pretty heavily. You should also heavily control the dynamics as well using a compressor or you can easily overload it when working close to the element. This is a pretty sensitive microphone.

I like it, it's been a fun experiment and I have it dialed in well now but I think by far for most amateurs a large diaphragm dynamic mic is a much easier path, often they can be plugged directly into a rig.

If you are sufficiently bored and want to try a new style microphone, this short shotgun may be worth a go.