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Simply the best – Microtech Gefell innovations at the Sensor+Test 2022
Simply the best – Microtech Gefell innovations and product updates at Sensor+Test 2022 After a 2-year Corona-break, the leading international trade fair for sensor, measuring and testing technology will once again be held as a presence event in Nuremberg, with more than 300 exhibitors. The MTG trade fair spectrum includes new in- and outdoor microphones as well as acoustic measuring systems for industry, environment and science. One focus is on automotive applications, such as turnkey test benches and innovations for R&D in fields of e-mobility, sound design or quality assurance. Sensor+Test 2022 is also particularly important for Microtech Gefell because it coincides with an important MTG anniversary. Tradition und Innovation…
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70 years East Germany TV & radio history and Microphones from Gefell
70 Years of TV in the East and 30 Years of Central German Broadcasting /MDR – Microphones from Gefell have been there from the start At the end of the 1950s, the importance of radio, film and television grew in East Germany as well. While in 1952 the first GDR television programme could only be received by about 60 television sets in Berlin, by 1960 17 per cent and by 1970 69 per cent of households were equipped with sets. In addition to exerting political influence, the aim was to offer the GDR population entertainment from its own production and to stand up to Western television. In 1956, the "Deutsche…
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Microtech Gefell News – Sound Power Hemispheres for sound power measurements according to ISO 3744 and ISO 3745
NEW in the Microtech Gefell – program – Sound Power Hemispheres / SLH for sound power measurements according to ISO 3744 and ISO 3745 Internationally, manufacturers of all sound-emitting industrial and consumer goods devices are increasingly required by law to record and comply with the entire chain of human and environmentally relevant sound emissions. At the same time, consumer-oriented sound design is becoming increasingly important in product development, e.g. designing corporate and brand product sounds in the field of e-mobility in the automotive sector. The two sides of the same coin – Noise reduction and Sound creation The reduction of unwanted noise emissions from a vehicle is not only regulated…
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The esz AG calibration & metrology offers additional accredited calibrations in cooperation with Microtech Gefell
The esz AG calibration & metrology offers additional accredited calibrations from 01.11. 2021. New in the portfolio of Europe’s largest independent calibration laboratory are acoustic measurands and the mechanical measurand "acceleration". For this purpose, the esz AG cooperates with the renowned microphone manufacturer Microtech Gefell GmbH. With over 200 accredited measurands from all technical fields, the esz AG is one of the largest independent metrology laboratories in Europe. The calibration service provider from Eichenau near Munich is continuously developing this portfolio. In order to be able to offer its customers further measurement quantities, the esz AG is breaking new ground and cooperating with the microphone manufacturer Microtech Gefell. Microtech Gefell…
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The 16th ST.GALLEN FESTIVAL and the High-End Microtech Gefell Linearray Microphone System KEM 975
The 16th ST.GALLEN FESTIVAL 2021 a culturally milestone for 15 years – Featuring High-End Microtech Gefell microphones The legendary St. Gallen Festival took place for the 16th time in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Abbey District of St. Gallen from 25 June to 9 July 2021. The centrepiece of the festival was the large open-air opera production in the inner courtyard of St. Gallen Abbey. The focus of this year’s festival was the opera "Notre Dame" by the Austrian composer Franz Schmidt. With this new production, the Festival continued its tradition of rediscovering rarely performed masterpieces. The new production of the opera classic exuded a touch of Gothic,…
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Microtech Gefell and e-mobility – Noise reduction was yesterday – Product Sound Design will be the future
Noise reduction was yesterday – Product Sound design is claimed in future Microtech Gefell – New measurement tools & turnkey test benches for simulated indoor and exterior pass-by systems By Udo Wagner/Microtech Gefell/MTG E-mobility changes the world of acoustical engineering. The development of a new vehicle generation is going along with immense progresses in technologies of test bench systems and in the world of acoustic measurement. The e-mobility-world presents a host of new challenges for acousticians. In the century of e-vehicles noise emission is as low as never was possible in the time of combustion engines. But to low noise emission is dangerous, especially for pedestrians. Legislators in mostly countries…
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Line array condenser Microphone System KEM 975 – the high-end Allrounder with non-rotation-symmetrical polar pattern
Cardioid plane microphone KEM 975 – the high-end Allrounder for for concert, opera, theater The KEM is ideally suited for musical applications, for example for recordings in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the State Opera and Konzerthaus Berlin, the Cologne Opera, the Bonn Theater and in many others. The 16th ST.GALLEN FESTIVAL 2021 – Best sound performance thanks to high-quality Microtech Gefell microphones The highlite has been the opera “Notre Dame” by the composer Franz Schmidt. Due to corona restrictions the orchestra and the Prague choir had to be transmitted by fibre optics from the theatre’s concert hall to the open-air venue in the cloister courtyard. The responsible sound engineers Stephan Linde…
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Film history – Microphones made in Gefell and 75 years of DEFA
75 years of DEFA and microphones that made history On 17 May 1946, Deutsche Film-AG (DEFA) was founded in Potsdam-Babelsberg as a Soviet-German joint stock company. After the founding of the German Democratic Republic/GDR on 7 October 1949, the film studios, workshops and sound studios gradually passed into German hands. In 1953, the DEFA studios for feature films, children’s films, popular science films, newsreels and documentaries, film dubbing and the DEFA studio for animated films (1955) were established. The former Ufa studios, known for film classics of the 1920s such as Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler, Nosferatu – A Symphony of Horror, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis or The Blue Angel with Marlene…
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Gefell`s M 990 a „heartbreaker“ – An up to date large-diaphragm condenser microphone in tube technology
Committed to the Georg Neumann heritage, Microtech Gefell/MTG stands for tradition and innovation since 1928. This is evidenced by the M7 PVC capsule, which has been handmade for more than 80 years. The renowned M7 capsule, created by Georg Neumann in 1932 and used in the original U47 and M49 microphones, is e.g. still found today in Microtech Gefell’s legendary UM 900 and several other models. In addition to the production of the classic M 7 capsule, MTG faced new challenges with the development of a completely new capsule generation. Following the principle of tradition and innovation, a completely new capsule was developed in the 1990s- the M 930 capsule,…
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UM 900 – The first tube condenser mic with switchable polar pattern, connectable to 48 V phantom powering
UM 900 – Innovative and Inspirational – The first tube condenser microphone with P48 V Phantom powering The modern-looking, elegant UM 900 tube condenser microphone with classic M7 capsule is further proof of Microtech Gefell`s innovative power in microphone development. With its award-winning design, this microphone is not only decorative, it also ensures optimal acoustic properties. The special shape of the microphone body, for example, is specially designed to minimise unwanted sound reflections. The capsule is the legendary M7 – the original design by Georg Neumann from 1943. The classic double diaphragm capsule forms a pressure gradient transducer of about 30 mm diameter with the gold-plated PVC diaphragms. The assembly…
