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1st February 2008, 09:35 PM
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Shockmount "cradle" for a Mic vs. a "little screwon attachment" How important is the shock mount/cradle? Some more expensive mics (as well as cheap ones of course) come WITHOUT A CRADLE. Is this because they don't need one, and they assume you'll be use the little attachment that came with it, or because the company thinks you'd want to use a shock mount bought seperately?? For example, my Alesis AM51 didn't come with a mic cradle (and it retailed for about $600 i think..sometimes more) my Studio Projects C1 on the other hand (quite cheap) did come with its own cradle (which btw is has the worst clamp design ever)... I've been putting my AM51 in some generic cradle that doesn't work very well. Am I doing this for no good reason? Does it not need the shockmount? Should I just use the super-simple mount is comes with? (it just screws in to the mic with no shock absorber) Sorry for the lame question :/ |
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2nd February 2008, 02:00 PM
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| Gear nut Join Date: Dec 2006
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| Listen to your recordings without one then decide from there. |
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2nd February 2008, 07:07 PM
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| Gear maniac Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: ATL
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| Go and research what a shock mount does, and if you are having problems that a shock mount could help, then invest in a new one. Alot of nice and crappy mics don't come with one because the manufactures want you to buy one for an additional cost so they can make more money. |
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2nd February 2008, 07:35 PM
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Phila, PA/Upstate MA
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The cheap mics have so much self noise, a little extra from foot tapping coming through the stand won't be heard...  If you dont have a shock mount and can't afford one, a similar noise transmission dampening technique is to get a large surface piece of foam, wrap it in a packing blanket, place a thin sheet of plywood on that for micstand stability, and place it on the floor (you've basically made a portable floating floor). Have the mic stand on your homemade iso-platform and have the vocalist make sure they neither stand on or touch the mic or iso-assembly. You could go AWOL and get audiophile dampening cones for under the iso-platform as well...
__________________ www.myspace.com/stitchproductions "Half shark, half man, skin like alligator...carrying a dead walrus..." "I think this sheet metal that says NEVE on it can be made into a mic pre. It already sounds better than anything else I own." -D.W. | |
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2nd February 2008, 11:17 PM
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| Gear addict Join Date: Feb 2007
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I didn't understand why they make these other mic attachments at all? That's all I was confused by... Basically, the above quote is the answer to my question (assuming it's accurate). | |
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