Sennheiser
MKE Essential Omni
Electret / lavalier · Omnidirectional · 20–20,000 Hz
- 140 dB SPL from a 16 g lavalier — enough to clip to a brass player rather than only to a presenter.
- The cost-down member of the MKE lavalier family, aimed at houses that need thirty of them rather than three.
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. Sennheiser publishes figures for the MKE Essential 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 | Sennheiser |
|---|---|
| Model | MKE Essential Omni |
| Type | Electret / lavalier |
| Form factor | Lavalier |
| Polar pattern | Omnidirectional |
| Frequency range | 20–20,000 Hz |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Max SPL | 140 dB SPL |
| Self-noise | 28 dB(A) |
| Impedance | 1000 Ω (nominal) |
| Connector | wireless bodypack |
| Powering | phantom 48 V |
| Weight | 16 g |
| Price tier | Mid |
| Introduced | — |
Every figure above is from Sennheiser’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
- Theatre lav
- Broadcast
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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