At 9:01 AM -0800 3/11/05, Mark Griswold wrote:
>shop-vac filter material makes an excellent "zeppelin" for Shure lavs!
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>The downside is that any rubbing is really loud, so I can't walk and
>record without figuring out a change of mounting.
You probably have solutions in mind but the mass of the 183 heads is
so low it should be possible to avoid all contact rubbing and
footfall concussio bumps. An easy one might be replacing the safety
pins with a small "springy" open cell foam in a donut. I caution that
the open cell foam material can make contact noise itself when used
for absorbing shock with heavier mics-- but when the mass is low, it
absorbs shock pretty noiselessly. For example, I have the back 2/3's
of 183's supported of a 1" cube of open cell foam and the working end
sits in the open, unaffected. I don't get footfalls or noise from
walking. Foam should work as a simple shock mount inside parabs too.
Rob D.
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>but first I have to go back to the hardware store since I cut up the
>filter I just got...
>
>mark
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Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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