sE Electronics
RN17
Small-diaphragm condenser · Cardioid · 20–20,000 Hz
- A small-diaphragm condenser with Rupert Neve transformer electronics and a 17.2 mm gold-on-mylar diaphragm.
- The capsule unscrews — an omnidirectional head is sold separately, which is rare at this size.
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 RN17 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 | RN17 |
| Type | Small-diaphragm condenser |
| Form factor | Stick / pencil |
| Polar pattern | Cardioid |
| Frequency range | 20–20,000 Hz |
| Sensitivity | 6 mV/Pa · -44.5 dBV/Pa |
| Max SPL | 131 dB SPL |
| Self-noise | 18 dB(A) |
| Impedance | 200 Ω (electrical) |
| Connector | XLR3M |
| Powering | phantom 48 V |
| Weight | — |
| Price tier | Premium |
| 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
- Overhead
- Acoustic instrument
- Hi-hat
- 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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