SENNHEISER Professional E 945 Dynamic Super-Cardioid Vocal Microphone,black

Great mic!I am a stage singer in a rock band, with a wide range, and I like everything from the quiet breaths to the high belting to sound like I do in the shower. 🚿I was using the Shure MS58 and was not aware of what it lacked until my drummer 🥁offered me his mic to use. Wow!! What a difference! I had to have one of my own, immediately.Beautiful! Crisp! Clean! 🏵️Bear in mind, it is super cardioid, so be sure to have this right near your mouth and don’t stray from the path. Any offset of your aim and it may not pick up your voice as well as it could if you stay in line with the head of the mic. Background noise is little to none. Fantastic for a loud atmosphere. And durable as they get.Definitely worth every penny and then some!🥇

Bought this when it was on sale. Totally impressed with it. I will never go to another mic again. Very clear sounding mic that cuts through the mix. I was using Shure mics for years, but now I am a die hard E945 fan. Liked it so much, I bought a 2nd one as back up.

I already had my E935 and was happy with it but then I saw this one on sale one day and decided to give it a try. This is as much of a great quality mic as the E935, but supercardioid! The same beautiful, clear sound with a bit of a deeper range of sound pickup, love it! It's great to use for singing while playing an instrument, because you have that specific sweet spot to sing to without fearing about other sounds bleeding too much into the mix. And the materials and design are great, so it performs great but it also looks and feels great.

Haven't used it, yet, but wanted to warn other customers that the packaging was non- existent. The item came in its box with a label, no wrapping, no tape. It could have easily fallen out of the box and been damaged.

I use this whenever I lead worship at church and I love the warmth that comes through.

I have not heard a better sounding handheld, dynamic microphone. I have heard several that may sound just as good, some of which are much less expensive, but I can't say I've heard a better sounding one.The biggest drawback I see with this microphone is it seems to have a stronger tendency to feedback than any other I've tried. I evaluated both feedback from the side and back and made a subjective evaluation of this and the polar pattern, and my perception tells me the e945 has a fairly broad pattern for a supercardioid, about the same as what many cardioid mics like the SM58 have. Although the e945 has significantly more gain than a SM58, it still tended to be more likely to produce feedback from the side even when the additional gain was compensated for in comparison.It could be a great microphone where feedback is not a concern, or very likely, such as for recording or when the mic and monitors are in fixed locations and all precaution has been taken to avoid feedback.Comparing it to other dynamic vocal mics, I appreciate the e945 as quite possibly the best of them. I felt it was better than the Telefunken M80, the Beyerdynamic TG-V70D, and several Audix models, as well as the SM58. However, I am a lot more doubtful the e945 has anything worth the much greater price. Comparing careful recordings using studio-quality headphones, I could just barely perceive a difference in sound qualities compared to good microphones costing 1/3rd the price. I wasn't really able to identify anything that would convince me it is certainly worth three times as much money as an alternative. Many of the differences I did perceive could have been due to small changes in the gain, distance and proximity effect that I couldn't perfectly compensate for.I have a lot of long-term experience with Sennheiser microphones, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them in general. You won't go wrong with this high-end microphone unless you have high stage volumes and feedback is a major concern, in which case you would be better off with a much tighter pattern.Everything else I can think of is mostly subjective, and based on my testing, mostly in your head. I think people believe one mic sounds better than another simply because they heard it with more gain, or with the amount of their preference of proximity effect. I compared several mics without EQ or other processing, but when you add the EQ and compression that is typical in live sound environments, and consider that the PA and the room probably have anything but a flat response, the sound of a mic is going to be totally different. Ideally, you might compare them in the venue where they're to be used, but if that's constantly changing, then what really makes one mic better than another? Some are more dependable than others, but one certainly doesn't need to spend over two hundred dollars to get a reliable mic.

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A while back I bought a Bose L1 Model II system and I fell for the old “you don’t need stage monitors with the new Bose L1 system” but I was fighting feedback problems. I realize it takes me a while to sort things out in the meantime the L1 is collecting dust. More research endless YouTube videos and Bose blogs… it seams I was not the only one with the feedback problem…. Then one day I read a thread on microphones and the importance of the type of Polar Pattern the mic gives off. I needed a “Supercardioid” mic! So the stage sound would not come into the sides the mic. Aha! A new clue… more research on mic’s and found the Sennheiser e945, went to Amazon took the plunge and bought two of them. For the first time we used our Bose L1 Model II system to it’s full potential (without stage monitors) the e945 is such a powerful mic we had to turn down the gain. This and the effects of the Supercardioid helped take away the feedback problem, even with the lower gain setting the mic still had plenty of volume plus the e945 is a great sounding mic. I was wondering who was that singing?... Oh wait it’s me! Thanks Sennheiser.Sennheiser e945 Supercardioid Dynamic Handheld Mic