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Originally Posted by Enginearing  but not the connectors right? (i am guessing here) you'd have to cable the stand permanently, i guess leaving enough slack for folding when dissembled, (kinda like newschool dome-style tents.) This in turn would mean that you'd have yourself a completely fixed height stand?
still... its only a couple of bucks and is anyone really shocked by seeing leads trailing up a mic stand? i's be putting an extra shot bag or two on for ballast. |
yes, you guess right about the connectors...for Ikea's "flat packing" purposes the stand does indeed come with "pre-loaded" cable (ordinary twin core mains flex) so that gives you an idea of the diameter of cable you'd need to thread through the centre ...and also through those several aluminium threaded joiners. It is indeed like those domestyle tent poles with the inner-cords. Main difference is that Ikea intended that there be no continual flexing of that cable via repeated assembly/disassembly, in the way that we envisage it for location use. I'd worry that the repeated flexure of the cable in this way over time would fatique and damage the screening and inner cores of any mic cable of thin enough gauge to fit through the cores of the poles, even after leaving a little slack like you mentioned. Yes...you'd also be stuck with a fixed height pole !
I'm quite happy to tape mic leads to the stand....it's just interesting to see a stand configuration where the diameter of said mic cables are likely to be similar to (possibly even exceed) that of the stand itself !!