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[josh]

Moonrider wrote on Mon, 17 May 2004 02:49

dejacky wrote on Sat, 15 May 2004 05:28 If $16.95 is cheap to you, www.tensimount.com. That's half of any price I've seen for the ones that *won't* fit my mike, and this one looks like it'll do the trick. Thanks for the link!

FWIW I got my tensimount shock mounts yesterday, and they are too small to fit my Studio Projects B1 mic.  I expect many common LDCs are too big to fit these shock mounts.  My Oktava MK-219s barely fit and took quite a bit of weeping and gnashing of teeth to get them in but they work for those mics.  Narrow mics like my ECM8000's fit great.

I wish the co. would make them in a size 1" larger.  

Otherwise they are a pretty cool product.  I'll keep using my DIY units for my SP B1 and use the tensimount stuff for all my other mics.  If I get more large-diameter mics I'll just make some more of my kind.

[Moonrider]

josh wrote on Fri, 21 May 2004 09:10

FWIW I got my tensimount shock mounts yesterday, and they are too small to fit my Studio Projects B1 mic.  I expect many common LDCs are too big to fit these shock mounts.  My Oktava MK-219s barely fit and took quite a bit of weeping and gnashing of teeth to get them in but they work for those mics.

( . . . rummages through mic drawer and pulls out Mk-219 and Stageworks SKEC009b . . . )

Hmmm... they look kinda the  same size... Guess I'll have to wait and see.

Don't the Mk 219's have an internal shock mount? I haven't had a rumble problem with mine, although I do need to avoid the squeaky spot in the floor  

[josh]

Moonrider wrote on Fri, 21 May 2004 19:02

Don't the Mk 219's have an internal shock mount? I haven't had a rumble problem with mine, although I do need to avoid the squeaky spot in the floor

No, the capsule is rigidly mounted onto a piece of fiberglass, which with L-shaped brackets is bolted to the PC board, which of course is bolted into the chassis of the mic with a standoff.

This is the ringiest, most touchy to handling and stand noise of all of the mics I've tried.  A shock mount such as the tensimount or my DIY shock mount will also help dampen the ringiness of the body of the MK-219 by applying some tension/damping to the body of the mic (external, sort of like muffling a drum head).

The SP B1 on the other hand has the capsule mounted in a giant slab of rubber that does a pretty good job of isolating it mechanically from the mic's exterior body.

[Brendan Thompson]

Sorry to bring this topic back from the dead, but I was wondering if there's any way I could see the pictures of the DIY version using the embroidery hoops...

[doc willie]

You should check out http://www.shockmount.com/. I have a couple of these, and I made a couple of my own, which work just as well but do not look as finished. You need only PVC pipe, elastic cord, and cheap mic clips and some fasteners.

They may be a problem in some situations since the body of the shockmount is big enough to theoretically cause some sound interference, but I have not noticed this. But then I have $#!+  for ears.  

[Brendan Thompson]

Well this is for a shotgun mic, so I'm not convinced that the design on the link you posted will be "transparent" enough - surely it'd block off some of the vents?

[laptoppop]

Two things:

First, for the Studio Projects B1 in particular - 8thstreet.com sells the "official" Studio Projects shockmount for about $20.  Hard to beat for that microphone:   http://www.8thstreet.com/product.asp?ProductCode=6466&Ca tegory=Recording_Accessories

Second, the good folks over at Tensimount.com sell an adapter to use their shockmount with large microphones.  It also lets you "steer" the large microphone easily without removing it from the shockmount.  Check it out on the ordering page.  The only downside is that its another $13. or so.  On the other hand, its pretty cool to have one set of shockmounts that will work for a large variety of microphones.

-lee-

[cordura21]

Brendan Thompson wrote on Tue, 08 March 2005 04:23

Sorry to bring this topic back from the dead, but I was wondering if there's any way I could see the pictures of the DIY version using the embroidery hoops...

Hi, I'd like to see the pictures too. The ones attached don't work. Thanks, Andr

[yan_b]

look here how i made it, you can scroll to other pictures to see it step by step, not a very nice job but enough to get the basic idea.

[Garrett H]

If you're in a hurry and don't have a shock mount you can put the stand on a piece of dense rubber or other material to isolate the stand.  A main reason for a shock mount is to stop vibrations travelling from the stand to the mic.  If these vibrations are coming from the floor, decoupling the stand will work in a pinch.

Good luck,
GH

[Brendan Thompson]

Which doesn't help if the mic is on the end of a fishpole, as in my case

[Garrett H]

Brendan Thompson wrote on Sun, 24 April 2005 05:41

Which doesn't help if the mic is on the end of a fishpole, as in my case

Now you're just being bad.