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Re: WL-183 mount

Subject: Re: WL-183 mount
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:59:40 -0800
John Hartog wrote:

>Thanks for sharing ideas on mounting 183s.
>Over the weekend while my home was slicked over with ice, I
>found some time to play around with mounts for my Shure
>WL183s.
>I  found that hardware cloth can make a sturdy  and transparent
>support tube for use in a dish.  This picture shows the mics
>mounted side by side on the inside of the support tube:
>
><http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/files/JH_183s_
>Hardwarecloth.jpg>

Nice!

>I was afraid that by having them so close together and without a
>barrier between I would get something more like mono, but it
>turned out to give a nice stereo effect:
>
><http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/files/JH_05011
>8_frogs.mp3>

Well, yes and no. The subject sounds are nicely stereo. But as we
heard in someone else's no-barrier omni pair dish recording last
year, the recording of the ambient sound is close to mono.

-Dan Dugan


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