Sennheiser AMBEO VR Mic Ambeo 3D Audio Microphone, 4x Cardioid, Ambisonic Condenser

Sennheiser's AMBEO-VR is an elegant microphone that has been created alongside VR content producers and fine-tuned through an extensive creators' program with participants from across the audio and VR communities. This microphone caters perfectly to the needs of VR content creators, allowing you to capture the experience and spirit of any location, enabling the listener to be fully immersed as if they were there themselves.

The easy-to-use AMBEO-VR Microphone is an ambisonic microphone fitted with four matched KE14 capsules in a tetrahedral arrangement. This special design allows you to capture the sound that surrounds you from a single point. As a result, you get a fully spherical ambisonic sound to match your VR video/spherical 360° content.

The AMBEO-VR Microphone works with ambisonics, a multi-channel technique that lets you capture surrounding sound in a spherical area from a single point in space. For playback, this representation is rendered binaurally, allowing you to virtually rotate the orientation of the perspective in all directions, horizontally and vertically. Ambisonics is also supported by all of the major post-production and playback tools on the market today. This makes ambisonics the appropriate tool for Virtual Reality and all other applications involving 3D sound and interactively controlled audio.

Includes

• AMBEO-VR Mic
• Balanced split cable 4x XLRs 3-pins
• Extension cable, 1.5m, DIN12F to DIN12M
• Rycote suspension mount
• Foam wind shield
• Proprietary A-B format Encoder, available in VST and AAX plugins (Mac OSX and Windows)

Features

• Capture the world in a new spatial way
• Benefit from a design developed with you in mind
• Ambisonics: Technology for you to shape the future of audio

Specifications

• Dimensions: 215 x 49/25mm (L x D)
• Frequency response: 20Hz - 20kHz
• Max. sound pressure level: 130dB(A) for 1kHz
• Transducer principle: Pre-polarized condenser microphone
• Weight: 1.060g
• Microphone connector: DIN12M, use enclosed adapter cable to convert to 4x XLR3M Polarity: Pin1 (GND), Pin2 (+), Pin3 (-)
• Pick-up pattern: 4x cardioid, in A-format arrangement (1: front-left-up [FLU], 2: front-right-down [FRD], 3:back-left-down [BLD], 4: back-right-up [BRU])
• Nominal impedance: Approx. 200Ω
• Min. terminating impedance: 1000Ω
• Storage temperature: -20°C to 70°C (-4°F to 158°F)
• Operating temperature: -10°C to 55°C (14°F to 131°F)
• Equivalent noise level: 18dB-A (as per IEC 61672-1) 27dB CCIR (as per CCIR468-3)
• Power supply: 4x phantom powering (P48V) as per IEC61938 (48 +/- 4V), 7mA each
• Sensitivity: 31mV/Pa (-30dBV)
• Operating relative humidity: Max 90% at 40°C
• Matrix reference: Center of the capsule holder