Hi Walt,
Glad you saw this :).
> The end cap is not necessary to the structure, though it adds to it's
> strength. I'd not cart it around for long periods in the field without
> binding the opening as it will work out of the rear cam clamp in time
> unless held together with the end cap or something.
Excellent! And duly noted.
Much obliged as always Walt.
> However, the zepplin body is the male threads (which stick out) and
> the cap the female.
Humm, I might do some reengineering on the joint if it's feasible to get a
good mating, idea zero is to just make a female-female ring...
> You do not, however, have to do it the way your are thinking. Look at
> my M/S page, the two MKH-80's are side address. They are set up with
> the side behind the middle.
Of course! I started actually considering your 6" diameter zepp and also
the way you were using those rycote clips in the "mono" sennheiser blimps
to do MS as well... and then also the DPA Windpac, which supports M/S as
in your rig side-by-side -- I do wish the latter would work since I love
the way it collapses down, but I couldn't figure a way for it to be
flexible as follows:
I ended up with this odd approach so as to be able to rapidly adapt in the
field to spaced approaches (ORTF/baffled omni) by simply un-mating the
end-on mounts, re-attaching the end caps, and moving the mounts to a small
T-bar or similar -- I think ideally the mics will only have to be rotated
a bit in place.
The trick is, any spaced approach I want to try requires two separate
enclosures -- boy in this regard I covet those Schoeps ball-joints that
let you rotate the capsule and squeeze two colette mics into a single
zeppelin!
So this is the best I've come up that will support both coincident *and*
spaced strategies with a local minimum of kit size...
In six months I might well end up punting on this and reverting to the
less-flexible single-zepp approach, true...!
...but on the other hand a whole motivation for the multi-pattern mics (as
they are) (cough) is to be able to try a bunch of different strategies
with a compact kit... :)
best,
aaron
http://www.quietamerican.org
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