DPA 2011C
Cardioid Pencil Condenser Microphone
The DPA 2011C is a small-diaphragm pencil condenser microphone. It is part of DPA’s modular Reference Standard series; the microphone called the 2011C is actually comprised of the MMC2011 capsule plus the MMP-C compact “preamplifier.”
(The MMC2011 can alternatively be paired with the MMP-A head amplifier — see the 2011A — or the MMP-B head amp, which incorporates a rising equalization curve.)
The MMC2011 capsule head employs two miniature electret condenser capsules, arranged back-to-back and “custom re-built into a double diaphragm, one-capsule composition.” The capsule is mounted within a 51mm-long interference tube, which presumably is engineered to maintain the mic’s Cardioid pattern. Oddly, DPA has not published a polar plot for the microphone.
As is somewhat typical of microphones based on miniature electret capsules, the self-noise of the 2011C is relatively high at 20–23dBA.
The mic’s frequency graph is nominally flat from 100Hz–2kHz, then rises gently to +3dB at 10kHz, finally rolling off more sharply around 14kHz.
Attenuation at 60° is uniform, albeit with a steeper, lower-frequency rolloff. Rear rejection at 1kHz is better than 22dB.
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Specifications
Pickup Patterns | Pads & Filters |
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Cardioid
(10 mV/Pa; 50 - 17,000 Hz) |
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Capsule Dimensions | Impedance | SPL/Noise |
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Diameter n/a |
200 Ohms (Low) | Max SPL: 137 dB Self-noise: 20.0 dB(A) |
Weight | Length | Max Diameter | Interface(s) |
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64g (2.26oz) | 92mm (3.62'') | 19mm (0.75'') |
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Power Specifications |
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