I put a few shots of my rig on the site, too. It's called "Mike's Photos."
The first of the 3 is my complete - required setup.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:00 AM, justinasia <> wrote:
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> Curt has been very kind in advising me on how to record stereo. I decided
> to build a rig based on his designs and also with inspiration from Tom's
> design. Many thanks to Curt and Tom. I have now uploaded them in the phot=
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> section of this yahoo group, under the title "Justin's rig".
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> For me it is important that my gear is both lightweight and compact. So I
> didn't want to use a solid block due to weight, nor a fixed design due to
> space. So I tried designing a collapsable rig which is easy to assemble i=
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> the field, without the need for tools. I have tried to make it as simple =
as
> possible.
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> The straight bars are aluminium tubes, which slot into place. The curved
> bars are aluminium rod, which clip into place. The bars slot tightly, but
> the elastic bands serve to both keep the rig tightly and securely togethe=
r,
> and to also secure the mics in place.
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> As some of you will remember, I was asking about tripods. Since my curren=
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> recording project is in the forest, I am guaranteed to be surrounded by a
> plentitude of natural monopods, so I decided to take advantage of that. I
> will simply tie a piece of string around a tree at the desired height, an=
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> clip my rig onto the string. You may notice an elastic band around the
> clip/string. That is to add some friction, so that the string position ca=
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> be adjusted, thus changing the up/down axis, but will not slip.
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> Any questions, criticisms or advice welcome!
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> I have made some test recordings too, which I may put up if I can work ou=
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> how.
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> Justin
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