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SCX1 Documentation

Detachable-Capsule Pencil Condenser Microphone

Billed as the “Audix SCX-One system,” this microphone is a transformerless FET condenser head amp with multiple detachable capsules.

The amplifier circuit is the same as found in the SCX-25.

Making sense of the specs is confusing, because the mic has undergone at least one major hardware revision without a corresponding change in model name. The effects of of the redesign are not subtle:

Sensitivity of the Cardioid capsule jumped from 14 to 26 mV/Pa.
The original “Omni with Presence” capsule replaced the flat-response Omni capsule.

All seven known capsules are listed below. The current production models are marked as such. Nobody (perhaps not even Audix) knows for sure if the old and new Cardioid and HC capsules are the same.

The SCX-One system originally contained an optional, detachable -10dB pad. This device is no longer available.

Optional accessories available separately:

shock mount
pop filter screen
windscreen

Electronic Musician, 2000
The SCX-one is overall a warm-sounding mic with “cautious” highs and a lean low-end response. Its tendency to emphasize midrange frequencies and downplay lows can, depending on the source, result in an alternately rich and thick or boxy and muddled sound. Also, it sometimes sounds slightly flat or “removed” from the source. In our tests, the SCX-one did best on acoustic guitar…

The Audix SCX1 is also known as: SCX-1, SCX1, SCX, SCX1-C, SCX1-O, SCX1-HC.

The mic was released in 1998.

Specifications

Compatible Capsules

	Audix CPS-SCXC 18mm Cardioid capsule Sensitivity: 26 mV/Pa Freq. Resp.: 40 - 20,000 Hz MSRP: $299 \| Still In Production
	Audix CPS-SCXHC 18mm Hypercardioid capsule Sensitivity: 15 mV/Pa Freq. Resp.: 40 - 20,000 Hz MSRP: $329 \| Still In Production
	Audix CPS-SCXO 18mm Omnidirectional capsule Sensitivity: 15.5 mV/Pa Freq. Resp.: 40 - 20,000 Hz MSRP: $299 \| Still In Production
	Audix SCX-c Cardioid capsule Sensitivity: 14 mV/Pa Freq. Resp.: 14 - 20,000 Hz MSRP: n/a \| discontinued
	Audix SCX-hc Hypercardioid capsule Sensitivity: 10 mV/Pa Freq. Resp.: 40 - 20,000 Hz MSRP: n/a \| discontinued
	Audix SCX-o Omnidirectional capsule Sensitivity: 12 mV/Pa Freq. Resp.: 20 - 20,000 Hz MSRP: n/a \| discontinued
	Audix SCX-op Omnidirectional capsule Sensitivity: 12 mV/Pa Freq. Resp.: 20 - 20,000 Hz MSRP: n/a \| discontinued