A Sennheiser shock mount for a shotgun mic.
(n a separate posting I discuss the structure of the windshield provided by
Sennheiser for the MKH-815 shotgun mic some 30 years ago.)
The shock mounting for the mic seemed to me to be effective in coping with
handling noise. And it is delightfully simple: just two rubber pillars 25m=
m
high and about 11mm in diameter. A screw embedded in the base of each
pillar goes through the shield to attach to the hand-grip uderneath. A
metal bar attached to the tops of the two pillars carries the mount for the
mic.
To adapt this for my NT4 I simply removed the clamps for the Sennheiser mic
tube and replaced them with pieces of poly-pipe.
If I wanted to home-build a wind shield for the NT4, that's how I would
mount it: Make two pillars out of the rubber from a motor-vehicle tyre.
Cut each lengthwise. Carve suitable hollows, insert my screws, and glue th=
e
pillars back together again.
For what it's worth ...
Syd Curtis in Australia
[BTW, I don't know about other parts of the world but here in Australia,
tyre rubber for such an exercise is readily obtained for free from the side=
s
of our highways. People 'economise' by having tyres retreaded instead of
replacing them, and some then drive fast enough for centrifugal force to
separate the retread from the tyre. A useful material for odd jobs around
the house.]
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