I know... pics, or it didn't happen...
I A/B'd it against my Audio-Technica AT2005, and to be honest, they sound almost identical. The AT sounds slightly richer in the low mids, but that could be due to the fact that the AT has slightly more output than the V7. Not by much, though... Maybe about 2 or 3db. You can compensate for that by increasing the gain just a touch, but I was hoping this mic (with a booster) would feed more juice to the interface than the AT, but even with the booster, I'm only getting up to about -24 db (which is about the same as the AT). Oh well... Both mics do much better with the pre-amps in the H4n Pro, so I'll just use that as my mic interface.
One thing that is noticeably different is that the V7 does a much better job at rejecting handling noise than the AT. I mean it's almost silent when you handle it. Whatever noise you do hear is very faint and low-frequency, while the handling noise of the AT is pretty bad. I never noticed it before because I always had that mic on a boom arm, and I never touched it while recording. The V7 also has a bit more clarity than the AT, but again, it's not a night-and-day difference. It's a good mic. It's very detailed and natural-sounding. It does a good job of rejecting plosives, and it's slightly less sibilant than the AT, but I wouldn't say those things were ever a problem with that mic. As a stage mic, I'm sure the V7 kicks ass, but for spoken-word, I wish it had a little more richness in the lower frequencies. The AT has better proximity effect.
So, I don't know... I'm starting to think maybe I should have bought the V7X after all. That mic did seem to have better low end response, but I was scared off by its greater sensitivity to plosives. Maybe I'll order a V7X so I can compare them side-by-side and keep the one I like better.
