The Professional division at Heil Sound presents the 'HERITAGE', a high performance dynamic microphone designed for commercial broadcast, live sound reinforcement (PA) and recording studios. Designed to answer the 'Elvis' microphone of the 50's, the Heil Heritage is truly a piece of American art! The chrome finish is a special 'showchrome' where the molded steel body is first copper plated and then chrome plated producing a gorgeous finish that looks as if it was inches deep. The microphone exhibits a remarkable natural, clear sound and achieves this exceptional performance by the use of a special magnet structure with a large 1 1/8" aluminum low mass voice coil assembly. Heil has paid special attention has been paid to the phasing plug assembly with equally placed PICTURE OF MIC ports that sense audio from the back of the microphone entering those sounds out of phase thus producing a very linear cardiod pattern and reduces the proximity effect while achieving the extreme articulation across it's smooth 40Hz.- 18kHz frequency response. The dynamic element is mounted in a internal sorbothane shock mount system that reduces handling noise. An ingenious blue foam windscreen was molded to fit the inside of the microphone shell, thus offering a breath blast filter at the same time providing the screen for the microphone instead of using the usual silk material of years past. The Heil Heritage has a 5/8" - 27 standard thread assembly that mates with all of our microphone stands and booms. A slide switch turns the audio on and off and has a small lick screw to deactivate this switch.