Sennheiser ME 36 Lobar Gooseneck Microphone Head

The ME 36 is the only head in the series with an interference tube, and that is what it is for. The 96 mm slotted tube narrows the pattern to a lobe, so a microphone sitting further from the talker still delivers a usable direct-to-reverberant ratio. In a chamber where the gooseneck cannot be allowed to intrude into sightlines, that reach is the whole design brief.

It is also the most sensitive and quietest of the three at 18 mV/Pa with 23 dB(A) of self-noise, against 10 mV/Pa and 26 dB(A) for the ME 34 and ME 35, which matters when the source is further away. The tube is only 8.2 mm in diameter and the head weighs 17 g, so it stays visually slight. Power is 12 to 48 V phantom through an MZH 30xx gooseneck.