sE Electronics
BL8
Boundary · Cardioid · 20–20,000 Hz
- A half-cardioid boundary plate: the surface it is lying on becomes part of the microphone, so the pattern only exists above it.
- 143 dB before the pad and 163 dB with 20 dB in — high enough to lay inside a grand piano with the lid down.
Frequency response
No response curve yet.
MicSense only draws a curve traced from a graph the manufacturer actually publishes — it never estimates one from the microphone’s class. sE Electronics publishes figures for the BL8 but no response graph, so the numbers are in the spec table below and the chart stays empty.
Polar pattern
Generated from the first-order directivity formula for cardioid. It illustrates the pattern type — it is not a measurement of this individual model.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | sE Electronics |
|---|---|
| Model | BL8 |
| Type | Boundary |
| Form factor | Boundary |
| Polar pattern | Cardioid |
| Frequency range | 20–20,000 Hz |
| Sensitivity | 25 mV/Pa · -32.0 dBV/Pa |
| Max SPL | 143 dB SPL |
| Self-noise | 14 dB(A) |
| Impedance | 60 Ω (electrical) |
| Connector | XLR3M |
| Powering | phantom 48 V |
| Weight | 538 g |
| Price tier | Pro |
| Introduced | — |
Every figure above is from sE Electronics’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
- Lectern / podium
- Choir / ensemble
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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