Hey, alright.
Someone else likes the shop-vac company for pro-audio.
They have a number of neat products for us.
Rich
--- In Rob Danielson <>
wrote:
> At 9:01 AM -0800 3/11/05, Mark Griswold wrote:
> >shop-vac filter material makes an excellent "zeppelin" for Shure
lavs!
> ><snip>
> >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.
>
> >
> >but first I have to go back to the hardware store since I cut up
the
> >filter I just got...
> >
> >mark
> >
>
>
> --
> Rob Danielson
> Film Department
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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