sE Electronics
sE8
Small-diaphragm condenser · Cardioid · 20–20,000 Hz · a rider regular
- A hand-made half-inch capsule at a price that put matched pairs on club overhead bars.
- Three pad steps (0 / 10 / 20 dB) reach 159 dB SPL, and two low-cuts at 80 and 160 Hz keep the stage rumble out of the overheads.
- 13 dB(A) self-noise — quieter than most small-diaphragm condensers costing several times as much.
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 sE8 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 | sE8 |
| Type | Small-diaphragm condenser |
| Form factor | Stick / pencil |
| Polar pattern | Cardioid |
| Frequency range | 20–20,000 Hz |
| Sensitivity | 25 mV/Pa · -32.0 dBV/Pa |
| Max SPL | 139 dB SPL |
| Self-noise | 13 dB(A) |
| Impedance | 110 Ω (electrical) |
| Connector | XLR3M |
| Powering | phantom 48 V |
| Weight | 141 g |
| Price tier | Mid |
| 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
- Hi-hat
- Acoustic instrument
- 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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