On 2014-09-08 4:43 PM, Paul Stamler wrote: > If you can put up with a pattern that's merely hypercardioid instead of > short-shotgun, you might try the Electro-Voice RE16, and it works well > sitting on a piece of foam with the capsule floating just above the > tabletop ("mouse" mounting as Richard noted). I've had a lot of luck > using it for oral history interviews. Tough as nails, too. Hi, Paul, I once had a pair of RE-15 mics (which lacked the superior windscreen of the RE-16) but sold them to a radio station as I was relying more on capacitor mics in those days. Yes, those were good mics, but alas have not been made for years. The challenge today with dynamic mics is that many/most of the inexpensive recorders do not have a wonderful equivalent input noise (Ein) spec. The higher output of the condenser/capacitor mics mask this weakness. I suspect we're lucky to get -120 dB Ein on a portable recorder today. Cheers, Richard -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800 http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.