Instrumental Innovation AT5045 Premier Studio Instrument Microphone Audio-Technica's 50 Series offers the innovative key to recording instruments: the AT5045 cardioid condenser. Featuring our largest single diaphragm, the AT5045 is a premier, side-address studio instrument mic in a convenient, stick-type body. The microphone's circuitry has been honed to the essentials, allowing it to deliver an unprecedented dynamic range (141 dB) with remarkably musical high-fidelity performance. It's a purity of sound you won't find elsewhere - the result of insistent technological innovation (a 50 Series hallmark) for faithfully capturing instruments in the studio. audio-technica.comhttps://www.audio-technica.com/cms/wired_mics/fba62d0246d216b3/index.html