baby ball gags

[anechoic]

does anyone happen to know of a cheaper source for baby ball gag type windscreens for a 21mm mic?
I'm just not able to cough up the $140/each for the Rycote version...
???

[loujudson]

"baby ball gag" is such an ugly term... what do you reallymean, a dead cat ;-) or the cat's hairball?

There must be a better term for whatever you seek. Or I'm just too damn sensitive.

Lou

[nightscope]

Originally Posted by loujudson

There must be a better term for whatever you seek.

Hopefully.

[anechoic]

baby ball gag:
Rycote | Baby Ball Gag Windshield | 011002 | B&H Photo Video

leave it to Rycote to come up with a winning name!

[fifthcircle]

Look at the bottom of the page:

Rycote - Modular Windshield

--Ben

[loujudson]

Originally Posted by anechoic

baby ball gag:
leave it to Rycote to come up with a winning name!

Okay, you're forgiven. I thought it might be a nickname. Better than baya gag ball, I guess.

Never liked the Dead Cat as a name either, though I have one... also a LIVE cat, but can't get a mic in her except to record purring.

Lou

[nightscope]

Originally Posted by loujudson

Dead Cat

A search reveals the product's complete name is, "Rode Deadcat Microphone Wind Muff".

Another classic mistake.
ns

[loujudson]

Originally Posted by nightscope

A search reveals the product's complete name is, "Rode Deadcat Microphone Wind Muff".

Another classic mistake.
ns

Well, at least they didn't call it RodeKill!

The term dead cat was around a while before they used it as a trademark, though.

L

[nightscope]

Originally Posted by loujudson

The term dead cat was around a while before they used it as a trademark, though.

Makes you wonder how the term originated. I remember a Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers cartoon that dealt with the origin of the word "Frisbee". Apparently they had a cat called Frisbee. It got run over and killed. The brothers came and found the animal had dried out in the sun into a disk shape. And....

....the OP still hasn't got a cheaper option.

ns

[loujudson]

Pity the poor OP!

I remember that Freak Bros cartoon, but I think it is apocryphal. We were stoned enough to believe it, though, some of us anyway...

This may also be fiction, but it is researchable - and pre-Freak days:

The History of the Frisbee

And don't forget the Pluto Platter!

L

[dbssound1]

i thought perhaps this was referring to a a device to silence screamng children during a concert!

Just Kidding (kind of)

[KingDaddyO]

Can't imagine what could be a reasonable explanation for the origin of this name - it's just so high on the creep-me-out meter. Hell, didn't even want to click on the link, but curiosity got the better of me and I figured that Jules would've already pulled it if the name was any real indication ...

[John Willett]

Originally Posted by nightscope

Makes you wonder how the term originated.

"Dead Cat" seems to be an American term.

The Rycote original name (as they invented it) was "Windjammer" and the British term seems to be a "Dougal" as it looks likes the dog in the "Magic Roundabout" TV programme.




Regarding "Baby Ball Gag" - Rycote made a "Ball Gag" basket windshield for remote head microphones like the Neumann and Schoeps. This was basically just the end caps from a basket windshield and virtually nothing in-between. The "Baby Ball Gag" was a smaller version of just two end caps with a grommet in the end of one of them so it could come apart and go over microphones with a bulbous end - it was smaller, hence "Baby Ball Gag".

[KingDaddyO]

Originally Posted by John Willett

Regarding "Baby Ball Gag" - Rycote made a "Ball Gag" basket windshield for remote head microphones like the Neumann and Schoeps. This was basically just the end caps from a basket wondshield and virtually nothing in-between. The "Baby Ball Gag" was a smaller version of just two end caps with a grommet in the end of one of them so it could come apart and go over microphones with a bulbous end - it was smaller, hence "Baby Ball Gag".

Well there you go! Thanks John, for making the unimaginable, imaginable.

[ghellquist]

I have a stereo Rycote. Just for fun I sometimes put some small pieces of black gaffa on the outside, two eyes and a nose. The red tung is already there from Rycote. Always pulls down laughs.

// Gunnar

[loujudson]

Originally Posted by dbssound1

i thought perhaps this was referring to a a device to silence screamng children during a concert!

Just Kidding (kind of)

That device is called a "mother" and I like them. (better if they leave the kids home, though!)

It's the coughing old men with change in their pockets that bother me the most... last concert I recorded, it was the president of thje chamber music society who was coughing AND making noise with his video camera right next to my mic stands....

[anechoic]

well back in the day these items were called 'zeppelins' and 'shaggy dogs'
instead of windscreens and windjammers

but aside from all the humor does anyone know a knock-off or Behringer-type version of the baby ball gags? the cost for 2 Rycote BBG's would be almost $300!