New Microphone! - Behringer ECM8000

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Today I received an eBay purchase of a Behringer ECM8000. I'm pretty excited about this mic because it's what's called a 'reference mic'; meaning that, in theory, it has a completely flat frequency response.

Typically, something like this would be used to tune a room but there's really no reason why it couldn't be used like a normal mic. In fact, as I was reading up on it, I discovered that plenty of people love these things for certain recording applications purely because of how precisely they reproduce the sound source.

I fully intend on tuning some rooms with it at some point, but my current purpose for this mic will be to compare it's response to that of a microphone I'm reviewing to see for myself the frequency response and then compare that to what the manufacturer says. An arguably pointless endeavor but I'm convinced it will, if nothing else, be fun.

In any case, I'm excited to add another microphone to the mic locker and will try to do a review soon. I actually intend on using this against an ADX51 against an SM57 this Sunday on cello. Should be interesting. 

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