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> From: "haughki" <>
>>
>> first, many thanks to EVERYONE for all the replies. (Snip)
>> indeed, despite all i've read and all the very
>> vehement warnings about wind noise, i was using only the foam cover
>> which came with the nt4. i had taken one look at the rycote prices
>> and walked away from my computer, staggering.
>>
>> after a few simple tests, i'm certain you're absoulutely right: wind
>> noise.
>>
>> walt, i'll be putting your fabulous ingenuity to the test. wonderful!
>
> I expect you are talking about Rich Peet here. My solution was to spend
> a very long time watching ebay and put together pieces of suspensions
> and windscreens that way. While a whole lot cheaper than buying new,
> they still cost a bit. I prefer Sennheiser's zeppelin and suspension
> design over rycote's.
>
> Walt
>
So. :-)
How to build a windshield for a Rode NT4 Microphone taking only 30 years an=
d
a couple of thousand dollars:
1. Buy a Sennheiser 'shotgun' mic with rubber mounting inside a windshield
with pistol grip and tripod mount (the 2K dollars). Use it (mics don't
come much better) for recording until with the fullness of time it loses it=
s
sensitivity and is so old that Sennheiser won't restore it (the 30 years).
You now have an excellent windshield to adapt for the NT4.
2. It's too long, so cut a piece out of the middle and rejoin.
3. The NT4 body is much thicker than the Sennheiser, so the clips that the
Sennheiser fitted into won't go near the NT4. Get a few inches of poly
pipe of the right diameter. Cut it lengthwise so that you have slightly
more than half the circumference left, and screw into place instead of the
Sennheiser clips.
Done ... except in my case I lost the cap off the back of the windshield
somewhere in the bush in New Zealand many years ago, and when I found out
how much it would cost to replace it, I didn't! With the Sennheiser shotgu=
n
mic, that didn't seem to matter, but clearly it would for the NT4. Luckily=
,
a local shop stocked kitchen sieves of just the right diameter ...
Syd Curtis in Brisbane, Australia
PS. Vicki Powys, (also in Oz), built her own windshield from readily
available and cheap materials. (Don't remember what mic it was for.) Her
description should be in the naturerecordist's archives?
S
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