Sennheiser MKE 600 or MKH 50

[@iclipseco]

Did you have the inputs reversed on your RODE Caster? The MKH 50 sounds terrible compared to the MKE 600 (imo), but in a way that doesn't exactly make sense. There's also just a lot of strange stuff going on sonically. At 2:22 you take the windscreen off of the MKH50 while you say you are on the MKE 600, but we get an incredibly loud friction sound. Shotguns are supposed to have fantastic side rejection, so I really don't understand how the MKE 600 would have picked that sound up so sensitively. It really sounds like you are making contact with the mic that's getting signal (the MKH 50). Then, not long after 2:57 you talk into the MKH 50 while still supposedly being on the MKE 600, and signal somehow sounds hotter and more trebly. Because of the side rejection on shotguns mics (the MKE 600) they are also supposed to be very directional, so you being so far off axis and getting a hotter signal with more defined high frequency doesn't seem right. Another potential tell (that's more subtle) is that when you say you are on the MKH 50 and you look towards the MKE 600 it sounds slightly better/louder, you do this most notably at 4:01. This gives me the impression that you are getting more on axis with the narrow pickup pattern of a shotgun style mic (the MKH 600). I could be wrong, and maybe I just don't understand the MKE 600, but to me the MKH 50 really shouldn't sound that bad.

[@4031show]

The real sound coming from the MKH 50 you can hear especially do to the proximity affect is at 3:00 stamp, your channels could have been off! Great video tho!

[@b3naqua]

600 sounds better imo

[@michaelocunningham]

I'm considering these two and surprisingly for your voice you sound better on the 600 to me

[@LordofHogwarts]

Yeah, I'm wondering if the reason is the mic or just the audio level because obviously the 50 is way more quiet.

[@povpaul]

Thanks for the comparison. I own the MKE 600 and I was wondering what the difference would be. You're right it definitely picks up a lot more background noise.

[@arhon888]

Thanks for sharing. The 600 sounds better to me. The sound has good body, whilst still capturing the detail and clarity. At the end of the day, they are different tools for slightly different jobs, so in an ideal scenario one would have a condenser and shotgun mic.

[@Slipsch]

Something is wrong with your audio level of the MKH50

[@DanteGaymon]

It’s I had the gain level to high. When I put it in auducity my settings made the levels high then usual

[@ToddDolce]

600 sounds best for spoken word

[@almynotes]

What do you think about MKH8050? I’m considering buying either MKH50 or MKH8050. It’s newer than MKH50, smaller. I think they’re in the same niche of indoors recordings

[@hellolau]

What did you end up buying ? 😊

[@almynotes]

@@hellolau I went in completely different direction and bought Shure SM7b (for indoors) + Sanken CS-M1 (for in/outdoors) :)

[@ww1www]

The MKE600 sounds 100% better to me. The MKH50 sounds terribly muffled ... Maybe a KZbin compression thing???

[@pathegartyfilmssongs9487]

Mke 600 sounds better to me. It is an excellent mic for audio for film. The 600 is more sensitive. Making sounds is not background sounds. The 50 sounds very flat and muffled,

[@davemorphling7432]

MKE600 has exaggerated highs, and I usually EQ it down to get it to sound more balanced like MKH50. I'm very surprised to hear people in the comments saying they prefer MKE600 sound!