The Sennheiser MKH 60 is a stalwart in the professional sound world. It's been used on countless films and TV shows since it was originally introduced, alongside the rest of the original MKH range (20, 30, 40, 50, 60 & 70). It's the mic I've used most in the time that I've been a sound recordist and boom operator. I've swung it on everything from news, to feature films and it's never gone wrong (despite me dropping it on a fair number of occasions). I see the MKH 60 as the sh

The humble boom pole is a constant feature of film and video production. While radio mics have proliferated every facet of production filling up all of those extra channels that mixer manufacturers have been giving us, the boom is still correctly regarded as the "proper" way to capture audio for a film. With larger fuller sounding mics that can be placed in the correct location for speech pickup the boom mic has prevailed. If the film is being shot on an iPhone, the sound sti