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Anonymous

« A monster. »

Published on 10/29/11 at 13:42
The Audix OM7 is a dynamic microphone built by Audix designed for live vocal use. Audix has an endless list of features for this microphone. It is a hand held dynamic microphone with a hypercardioid patter, which means it has absolutely fantastic off axis rejection. The OM7 in particular, even for a hypercardioid has especially fantastic rejection. It can handle sound pressure levels of up to 144 dB's, and has a proprietary anti-feedback design. The microphone itself is cased inside a very durable and weighty body that tapers beautifully and is a joy to hold. The OM7 also has, like many of Audix's dynamic microphone, a very low mass diaphragm, in the interest of improving its transient response. It is also a quite low output microphone, so it is very good at dealing with live situations and instrument isolation. Granted, that is not something that is directly correlated, but the engineering in the diaphragm makes it so. The OM7 has a rather peculiar frequency response from 48 Hz to 19,000 Hz.

OVERALL OPINION

What is especially impressive about the Audix OM7 is how clean the vocal signal is. Many microphones try to taper their responses to certain areas of the frequency spectrum to accentuate certain parts of the voice. It is not that the Audix OM7 is a completely flat microphone, but it is certainly less muddied than other microphones in certain ranges. It also is not a dead microphone; it actually sounds very sweet, and the subtle enhancements in this microphone seem to come in areas that people cannot quantify, or do not quantify. This is something that always happens in microphones, but the OM7 is something that one just has to hear to understand. It is also something that must be used live to understand. A audio clip is not sufficient for this microphone's appeal.