sE Electronics
sE8 Supercardioid
Small-diaphragm condenser · Supercardioid · 20–20,000 Hz
- The tightest sE8: a supercardioid for overheads on a stage loud enough that a cardioid pulls in too much wedge.
- sE's own online spec table still lists this model's pattern as “Cardioid” — a copy-paste from the standard sE8. The product name and its polar plot both say supercardioid.
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 Supercardioid 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 supercardioid. It illustrates the pattern type — it is not a measurement of this individual model.
Specifications
| Manufacturer | sE Electronics |
|---|---|
| Model | sE8 Supercardioid |
| Type | Small-diaphragm condenser |
| Form factor | Stick / pencil |
| Polar pattern | Supercardioid |
| 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
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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