Professional VR 360-deg Audio Capturing Microphone for Audio Video Production

The elegantly designed AMBEO VR Mic has been developed in cooperation with VR content producers and fine-tuned through an extensive creators’ program with participants from across the audio and VR communities. The mic caters exactly to the needs of VR content creators, letting you capture the experience and spirit of any location enabling the listener to be immersed as if they were there.

CAPTURE THE WORLD IN A NEW SPATIAL WAY
The easy-to-use AMBEO VR Mic is an ambisonic microphone fitted with four matched KE 14 capsules in a tetrahedral arrangement. This special design allows you to capture the sound that surrounds you from a single point. As a result you get fully spherical ambisonics sound to match your VR video/spherical 360 content.

BENEFIT FROM A DESIGN DEVELOPED WITH YOU IN MIND
By means of the VR Creators Program Sennheiser made sure to involve the professionals of the industry in the realization of the AMBEO VR Mic right from the beginning. Thus, we developed a comprehensive product package including many well-conceived accessories that allow for a smooth workflow not least the A-B encoder software that works as a plugin, which can be seamless embedded in your post-production process.

TECHNOLOGY FOR YOU TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF AUDIO
The AMBEO VR Mic works with ambisonics, a multi- channel technique that lets you spherically capture the sound arriving from all directions, at a single point in space. For playback this representation is rendered binaurally, allowing you to virtually rotate the orientation of the perspective in all directions, horizontally and vertically. Ambisonics is also supported by all of the major post-production and playback tools on the market today. This makes ambisonics the appropriate tool for Virtual Reality and all other applications involving 3D sound and interactively controlled audio. A tool to create new worlds of sound with.

ENJOY PEACE OF MIND WITH SENNHEISER QUALITY
With its history of 70 years as a trusted and innovative company, developing top-notch professional microphones with high-quality capsules, you are entitled to expect a lot from the Sennheiser brand: reliable, robust German-engineered products. Rest assured: We deliver and also provide excellent customer support as well as a 2-years warranty with every product.

Technical Specifications

Dimensions
215 x 49/25 mm (L x D)
Frequency Response
20 Hz to 20 kHz
Max. Sound Pressure Level
130 dB(A) for 1 kHz
Transducer Principle
Pre-polarized condenser microphone
Weight
400 g
Microphone Connector
DIN12M, use enclosed adapter cable to convert to 4x XLR3M Polarity: Pin1 (GND), Pin2 (+), Pin3 (-)
Pick-up Pattern
4x cardioid, in A-format arrangement (1: front-left-up [FLU], 2: front-right-down [FRD], 3: back-left-down [BLD], 4: back-right-up [BRU])
Nominal Impedance
Approx. 200 ohm
Min. Terminating Impedance
1000 ohm
Storage Temperature
-20 deg C to 70 deg C (-4 deg F to 158 deg F)
Operating Temperature
-10 deg C to 55 deg C (14 deg F to 131 deg F)
Equivalent Noise Level
18 dB-A as per IEC 61672-1 / 27 dB CCIR as per CCIR 468-3
Power supply
4x phantom powering (P48) as per IEC 61938 (48 ± 4 V), 7 mA each
Sensitivity
31 mV/Pa (-30 dBV)
Operating Relative Humidity
Max 90% at 40 deg C
Matrix Reference
Center of the capsule holder
Mixing to B-Format
W = FLU + FRD + BLD + BRU / X = FLU + FRD BLD BRU / Y = FLU FRD + BLD BRU / Z = FLU FRD BLD + BRU