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Having speculated for years about the NPR sound, the sound they get from all those wonderful voices, I think this artifact, the Neumann U-87 is probably, next to the people who own those voices, the most significant part of the chain. A large percentage of broadcasters use either an Electro Voice RE-20, a Sennheiser 421, and occasionally a Shure SM-7 all really fine dynamic mics, all costing about $400. The base price of the U-87 is $2,700 USD, the mics NPR use have "aftermarket optimizations" by Klaus Heyne in the Corbett Oregon area.....remember this during the next pledge drive, and send money anyway.
Hear Klaus on NPR talk about an early Neumann CMV3 mic,
www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&am...
DSC_3697a
Having speculated for years about the NPR sound, the sound they get from all those wonderful voices, I think this artifact, the Neumann U-87 is probably, next to the people who own those voices, the most significant part of the chain. A large percentage of broadcasters use either an Electro Voice RE-20, a Sennheiser 421, and occasionally a Shure SM-7 all really fine dynamic mics, all costing about $400. The base price of the U-87 is $2,700 USD, the mics NPR use have "aftermarket optimizations" by Klaus Heyne in the Corbett Oregon area.....remember this during the next pledge drive, and send money anyway.
Hear Klaus on NPR talk about an early Neumann CMV3 mic,
www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&am...