Schoeps CCM 41 Supercardioid Compact Microphone

The Schoeps CCM 41 is a compact supercardioid with directivity like a short shotgun’s through the midrange, for music, speech, and film sound.

It attenuates off-axis sound more strongly than a cardioid, for a drier pickup. It is less prone to feedback than any other Schoeps type, as long as no loudspeaker sits directly on its rear axis. Its directivity hardly changes with frequency, so off-axis and reverberant sound is picked up without coloration, even from a distance. An interference-tube shotgun, by contrast, changes its sound with its position among a room’s reflections.

Being small, it can often go closer to the source than a shotgun, and as the mid microphone of an M/S pair it lets the array sit farther away. It is a common choice for film sound and as a spot microphone in the orchestra. Schoeps recommends the MINIX CCM LU RF suspension, the B 5 D windscreen, and the RL extension tube for it.

The Lemo version comes with a 5 m K 5 LU cable to XLR-3M and an SGC miniature stand mount with swivel, and it runs on P48 or P12 phantom power. Schoeps also builds the CCM 41 with a fixed 5 m cable to XLR-3M for installations.

Features

• Supercardioid with shotgun-like midrange directivity
• Off-axis sound without coloration
• Least prone to feedback of any Schoeps type
• For film sound, speech, and orchestral spot miking
• Mid microphone for distant M/S
• Lemo output with K 5 LU cable to XLR-3M
• SGC stand mount included