Description
The Electro-Voice ND68 is a dynamic supercardioid microphone engineered around the demands of close-miking a kick drum. Its voicing—tight lows, laid-back mids, and a snappy top end—means you can often skip heavy EQ and get a usable kick sound right from the channel strip. Beyond bass drums, it holds up well on other low-frequency sources such as bass cabinets and floor toms.
A large-diaphragm capsule, part of EV’s N/Dym platform, gives the ND68 its extended low-frequency response, pulling out the deep fundamentals that smaller capsules tend to lose. It’s built to handle serious sound pressure too, managing transients and sustained levels up to 144 dB SPL without breaking a sweat—ideal for anyone parking a mic right inside a kick drum shell.
- Humbucking coil design rejects hum from nearby amps, cabinets, and EMF sources
- Memraflex tight-mesh grille shrugs off knocks and rough handling on stage or in transit
- Supercardioid pattern voiced specifically for kick drum: controlled lows, relaxed mids, crisp highs
- Extended low-end response for deep, full bass reproduction
- 144 dB SPL handling for close-miking high-output sources
As part of EV’s broader ND Series, the ND68 shares the family’s focus on application-specific performance—each model tuned and mechanically designed to solve real-world placement and durability issues that sound engineers and drummers run into on stage and in the studio.
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