DPA
4099 CORE
Small-diaphragm condenser · Supercardioid · 20–20,000 Hz · a rider regular
- 18 grams on a gooseneck clip: the mic that let violins, saxes and brass sections go wireless without a stand in the shot.
- Supercardioid at a few centimetres from the source gives gain before feedback that no stand-mounted condenser can match on a loud stage.
- Sold as a family of clips — one capsule, a different mount per instrument — so a stock of four covers a whole horn section.
Frequency response
Read off DPA’s published response graph and re-drawn on the fixed MicSense scale (20 Hz–20 kHz, −20 to +15 dB), so two microphones can be compared at a glance. Points between the entered coordinates are interpolated — no data has been invented to smooth the curve.
Polar pattern
Generated from the first-order directivity formula for supercardioid. It illustrates the pattern type — it is not a measurement of this individual model.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | DPA |
|---|---|
| Model | 4099 CORE |
| Type | Small-diaphragm condenser |
| Form factor | Clip-on |
| Polar pattern | Supercardioid |
| Frequency range | 20–20,000 Hz |
| Sensitivity | 6 mV/Pa · -44.0 dBV/Pa |
| Max SPL | 145 dB SPL |
| Self-noise | 23 dB(A) |
| Impedance | 30–40 Ω via MicroDot; 100 Ω through a DAD XLR adapter |
| Connector | MicroDot |
| Powering | phantom 48 V via adapter, or 5–10 V from a wireless pack |
| Weight | 18 g |
| Price tier | Premium |
| Introduced | 2010 |
Every figure above is from DPA’s own published datasheet for this model — see the datasheet. A dash means the manufacturer does not publish that figure; it does not mean zero.
What it gets used for
- Acoustic instrument
- Horn / brass
- Toms
- Choir / ensemble
- Wireless bodypack capsule
MicSense tags microphones by the job on a live stage, not by studio category — so you can filter for “kick in” or “monitor vocal” instead of working backwards from “large-diaphragm condenser”.
Compare it against the alternatives.
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