Mic Foam - Auralex ISO

[opium89]

Anyone use these little foam thingys that wrap around a microphone for isolation? Curious if you've actually noticed an improvement with keeping the hats out of a snare mic and such. Auralex sells a "Producer Pack" I was looking at...

http://www.auralex.com/sound_isolati...n_producer.asp

[Matt Hepworth]

They have a pack called Xpander pack, or something like that. Same mic iso things, but without the big stuff for amps to sit on. They were more effective than I expected. Helps minimize HF bleed from hat to snare mic and such.

[Nu-tra]

They work well. I also take some extra ones and tape them to a stedman pop stopper and clamp it to the hihat stad and position the end for better rejection.

[opium89]

Excellent! I will pick some up and try it out. Is Auralex the only company that sells them?

[don4777]

I have also seen a new gadget that looks like it is designed to do what you want.

You might want to check out the SM Pro Audio Mic Thing

I haven't heard one. Don't know if it really works - or even causes strange audible artifacts.

Don

[opium89]

Yaya, I saw that one too. I'm more interested in wrapping something around the end of the mics. A piece of foam, or maybe a good piece of meat might do it!

[The dman]

I was thinking about making a couple of small baffles out of OC705 similar to this that would mount to a mic stand to use with people recording acoustic guitar and vocals together to reject some of the off axis sound. Right now it's just a thought I haven't sat down and designed anything but I think something like this could work as long as it isn't too ubtrusive to the performer. Has anybody made anything like that?

Thanks