sE Electronics
sE8 omni
Small-diaphragm condenser · Omnidirectional · 20–20,000 Hz
- The omnidirectional sE8: no proximity effect, so it can sit close to a source without the low end building up.
- Handles 141 dB flat and 161 dB with the 20 dB pad — the highest SPL figure in the sE8 family.
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 omni 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 omnidirectional. It illustrates the pattern type — it is not a measurement of this individual model.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | sE Electronics |
|---|---|
| Model | sE8 omni |
| Type | Small-diaphragm condenser |
| Form factor | Stick / pencil |
| Polar pattern | Omnidirectional |
| Frequency range | 20–20,000 Hz |
| Sensitivity | 20 mV/Pa · -34.0 dBV/Pa |
| Max SPL | 141 dB SPL |
| Self-noise | 15 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
- Choir / ensemble
- Acoustic instrument
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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