Hello folks:
I have not had any chance to evaluate the following potential, but it looks
too good not to mention:
My son, going off to college, obtained a new, blue collapsible Laundry
Hamper. The specifics:
"Bajer Laundry Room, Pop-open hamper with handles."
Open, it is a rectangular volume 14 x 14 inches, and 22 inches top to bottom.
The bottom is thin nylon cloth, like a backpacking tent; the sides are
"duromesh nylon" screening - double mesh fine screen.
The frame is flexible, and pops open and closes to a rectangle 14 x 22 x 1
inches flat, and with a twisting motion, collapses further into an 7 inch
circle, 2 inches thick, which squeezes into an attached mesh pocket. This
all goes in a clear pouch, 9 x 9 x 1.5 inches thick. Weight 10 oz. ca 300
grams.
The idea: Inverted it looks like a perfect wind-dead space for shortish
shotgun or omni mics.
Horizontal, it goes over my two Sennheiser ME-67 rig (see web asite
referred to earlier), but the two mic focal points are more or less
pointing at or through the cloth bottom. I'll have to check this out. I
have the idea of using a soldering iron to poke melted-holes in the cloth
bottom to give it more sound wave translucency . . .
You might be able to put the handles (inverted on the new bottom) over your
tripod head, holding the screen around the mic, mounted on the tripod head. . .
The item was bought from www.rhl.org for about $15. I plan to get a few
more. Worth several trials - but I will have no time until the last
performance of "Fiddler", on Aug 3.
my best regards,
Marty Michener
MIST Software Associates PO Box 269, Hollis, NH 03049
EnjoyBirds.com - Software that migrates with you. http://www.EnjoyBirds.com
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