Heil Sound The Fin Dynamic Cardioid Microphone Overview:The Fin microphone from Heil Sound Ltd. was featured prominently in the ad campaign for the 2012 smash hit movie ‘The Hunger Games’, (as well as the sequel ‘Catching Fire’), for its amazing looks. The Fin combines that “vintage mic look”, with a blend of futuristic, and TIMELESS, all in one shiny microphone. However, The Fin is a professional microphone with all the qualities you could ask for in a dynamic cardioid microphone, it just happens to be one of the coolest looking mics you’ve ever seen.Best-in-class, smooth, flat response from the shock mounted, large, low mass diaphragm element driven by a powerful magnet, will reward you with rich sound throughout its broad frequency range. The Fin is great in the studio, or live, and it particularly exhibits excellent upper mids.The Fin has a beautifully sculpted body that is double-chromed in a three stage plating process. Horizontal fins accent its soft angular profile. As an added bonus, The Fin glows via the four L.E.D. lights inside, which can be turned on and off from via the phantom power from the mixing board. This can make for a dramatic effect, or create that “certain vibe” to enhance your next performance. Check it out…The Fin microphone from Heil is turning heads…A lot of heads! The Fin is stocked in chrome and matte black bodies. Each version has either red, white or blue foam color/LEDs. With The Fin microphone you get a premium aluminum carrying case.The Fin has been designed especially for live sound, recording and broadcast applications. The exceptional performance is achieved by the use of a special magnetstructure with a large 1 1/4” aluminum low mass voice coil assembly similarto the Heil PR 20. The frequency response is 50 Hz – 18 kHz with that traditionalHeil Sound mid range ‘bouquet’ at 4 kHz, which presents incredible brilliance andpresence. The Fin exhibits a tight linear cardioid pattern. The chrome finish isa special ‘showchrome’ where the steel body is copper plated and then doublechrome plated producing a deep chrome finish. A molded internal foam windscreeninside the grill covers the Heil dynamic microphone element mounted in aspecially tooled rubber shock mount. The Fin® is stocked in the following finishes:chrome with blue, chrome with white, chrome with red, and black with blue. The fun part of the Heil The Fin is the four L.E.D. lamps mounted inside. Thesecan only be illuminated when using The Fin into one of the 3 pin balanced XLRinputs of a professional mixing console that supplies a + 48 volt d.c. phantomvoltage down the balanced mic line.Standard 5/8” – 27 microphone stand threads allow The Fin to be mounted onbooms or floor stands.The microphone audio will also work into an unbalanced low impedance inputused on amateur radios, communications audio or simple public announcementsystems. None of these will have the proper voltage to illuminate the lamps butthe microphone will work perfectly. Should you want to illuminate the lampswhen used for amateur radio, etc. The Fin® can be used into one of the balancedinputs of a small Behringer™ UB 802 (or similar) mixer or the 3 pin XLR balanced ofa W2IHY 8 band equalizer, with their phantom power activated. Specifications: