Sanken

Sanken Microphone Co. specialises in the design and manufacture of professional microphones for the audio, TV, and cinema industries. One of the leading microphone makers in Japan, the company was founded in 1926, creating microphones for professionals and ever since then their attention to detail and craftsmanship, has been captured in every single microphone model they design.

The Sanken microphones designed for audio and video production include a wide range of pure, transparent sounding shotguns, lavaliers and head worn mics for TV and film production, broadcast and live performance. Sanken sound engineers spend hundreds of hours to meticulously engineer these microphones in Japan using the latest technology and include many innovative features such as membranes impervious to humidity and temperature change. Their hard work and dedication to perfection results in microphones that have phenomenal frequency response, accurate off axis response, exact patterns, exceptional shotgun directivity and rejection, minimal proximity effect, low noise and high SPL tolerance.