Best Shotgun Microphone ($1000-$2000) : DPA, Schoeps, Sanken Mics 

Thanks! They all sound so good. Which mic did you like the best Pabula?

@@dvestore all sounded very good, I'm a little baised because I own the audix and senn 8060, but imo the cs3 sounded the best to my ears, again a very personal choice, not that it's better.

​@@Pabula Ah, thank you for the reply, the 8060 is a fine mic too and the Audix is a real bargain for the price. It is kind of like wine, at the high-end, it can be rather subjective. I do love the CS-3e for rejection in really noisy environments. We have an NFL customer that swears by it. Personally, the first time I heard the Schoeps I was floored by how natural and realistic it sounded. Almost scary how "Normal" it sounded, as if the person was still in the same room!

what did you end up buying?

@@doubledark2 A Schoeps CMC6 MK41. Very expensive but one of the best interior mics available. Deity should be releasing a Uni-Mic with hypercardioid capsule in the next few months, which should be a very good option for interior recording at 1/5 of the cost of the Schoeps.

@@paulfairchild8942 that's strange; no one else on RU-vid has mentioned problems with RF interference on that Audio Technica mic. Also, Deity have paused their work on the Uni Mic

@@doubledark2 I used the Audio Technica without issue on over a dozen shorts, shot in Canada. But when we shot in NYC, the RF interference issues came. I did a google search at the time to see if anyone else had written about RF issues with the AT, and a filmmaker in reddit had the same problems. The Rode NTG we had as a backup mic had no issues, better design or shielding. For exterior scenes we used a Rode NTG3, and it had no RF issues either. The AT suffered terrible RF interference. We were not using wireless gear so we were not the cause. For our next shoot, I will also be upgrading my cables to Mogami. The RF issues with the AT nearly destroyed our film, something I don't want ever happening again.

@@paulfairchild8942 still waiting on deity