Sennheiser MKH416-P48U3 Microphone

The MKH 416-P48U3 is the short shotgun that has anchored film, television, and outside-broadcast sound for decades. Its short interference tube gives it a super-cardioid pattern at low and mid frequencies that tightens to a lobar pattern in the highs, so it reaches past crowd noise and room reflections to pull a clean, articulate voice off the boom. The RF condenser design keeps self-noise very low and stays stable in humidity and adverse weather where other condensers drift.

The transformerless, fully floating balanced output feeds a clean signal down the 3-pin XLR, and the matt-black all-metal body is built to take field abuse while staying visually low key on camera. It runs on standard 48V phantom power and draws only 2 mA, and it ships with the MZW 415 foam windshield.