Price - Rs. 20,000 / US $ 450 / Euros 333

Shipping Cost - Rs. 300 / US $ 10 / Euros 8

Optional Phantom Power Battery Unit and XLR to EP (mIni-jack) cable - Rs. 3500 / US$ 75 / Euros 50

Audio Files

Plate 1st recording	Plate 2nd recording	Plate at 14 feet
sennheiser 1st recording	sennheiser 2nd recording	sennheiser at 14 feet

Direct A-B Comparison with the Sennheiser 416 - Right Click, Save Target As

Items supplied

1 Plate-Array Microphone, 1 Wind Shield, 2 Fabrics for cutting wind, 2 Shock Mounts and 1 Hard-padded carrying case, all included in cost of microphone

Personal Note

The first time we used the Plate-Array, we placed the microphone outside a window and turned the gain to full, what I heard blew me away, we got the sound-scape of an entire residential neighbourhood, someone opening a refrigerator door, footsteps, a child talking, cars passing far away, bird-song at an extremely low signal to noise ratio with the most beautiful frequency response I have heard on a microphone. Subsequent use by documentary filmmakers we've sold it to have had similar praise for this microphones' capabilities. Every time I hear it, the first thing that strikes me is how quiet it is, and the quality of frequency response, how close things are to how my ear naturally hears. The microphone will prove a great replacement for short shotgun microphones with the added advantage of performing very well indoors, where shotguns sound boomy and metallic.

Description

The Plate Microphone is based on an original idea of Umashankar dating back two decades. It is constructed on a clear acrylic plate, using five measurement grade electrets capsules with ruler-flat frequency response, arranged in cross like shape, with limbs of dissimilar lengths. This arrangement of five microphone capsules results in a microphone with some very desirable properties.

1. The microphone has the frequency response of small diaphragm capsules combined with the low noise of large capsules.
2. The microphone has very unusual directional properties. The front pattern is a widish cone - wider than many shotgun microphones. But there is no pickup at all at the rear but the lowest frequencies, yielding a much higher figure of merit than an shotgun microphone.
3. Unlike shotgun microphones, the polar pattern is constant, whether in a non-reverberant field (outdoor) or a reverberant field (most indoor locations).
4. Also unlike shotgun microphones, this microphone is not very sensitive to wind noise (It is not entirely immune, but no microphone is).

The microphone is designed to be powered by a phantom voltage of between 12 volts and 48 volts.We are producing this microphone as kit. Included in this kit are a windshield system, both fabric (for light wind) and a furry (for extreme conditions), two shock mounts, one for use on a boom pole and the other a camera hot shoe mount. We are also producing a small battery unit which will power the microphone where phantom power is not available, and for use with consumer style cameras and recorders with only a mini-jack connector for the microphone.

There is a 6 month replacement warranty. Any repairs after that will be on a cost+basis.