sE Electronics
V7
Dynamic · Supercardioid · 40–19,000 Hz · a rider regular
- An aluminium voice coil rather than the usual copper — lighter, so the capsule follows transients a copper coil rounds off.
- The supercardioid pattern and the 300 Ω output make it a direct SM58 alternative that most engineers gain up about the same.
- sE sells the same capsule as a drop-in head for Shure and Sennheiser wireless handhelds, which is why it turns up on rider riders as a capsule swap.
Frequency response
Read off sE Electronics’s published response graph and re-drawn on the fixed MicSense scale (20 Hz–20 kHz, −20 to +15 dB), so two microphones can be compared at a glance. Points between the entered coordinates are interpolated — no data has been invented to smooth the curve.
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 | V7 |
| Type | Dynamic |
| Form factor | Handheld |
| Polar pattern | Supercardioid |
| Frequency range | 40–19,000 Hz |
| Sensitivity | 2 mV/Pa · -54.0 dBV/Pa |
| Max SPL | — |
| Self-noise | — |
| Impedance | 300 Ω (electrical) |
| Connector | XLR3M |
| Powering | None (dynamic) |
| Weight | 305 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
- FOH vocal
- Monitor vocal
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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