Thanks for the information. I don't know if I'll ever have the stand set up like yours so I might be ok with it.
IMHO, these lightweight stands are actually
worse than nothing. At least a human holding a microphone has
some chance of not dropping the mic on the floor. These stands, however, as shipped, are pretty much guaranteed to ruin anything you put on them unless you only use exceptionally light microphones.
These mic stands are just too unstable to hold anything heavy. I've seen them fall over easily when used as a straight stand (no boom) with an SM58. No joke. I saw a performer cursing about the quality of these stands on stage and practically throw the stand out into the audience because it fell over about eight times during the first song. The only reason I'm using my Nady equivalent of these stands for drum overheads is that I felt like I should do something with them and they proved thoroughly incapable of doing
anything else. I nearly killed a Studio Projects B3 the first day I had these things. I ordered two Tama stands to replace them literally the next day, IIRC.
To give you an idea of how unusable these stands are, that Studio Projects B3 is similar in weight to the mic you're talking about putting on it. I found that as long as I consistently made sure the mic was over one of the legs, I could get maybe a foot of boom extension before the stand fell over. (That means that the other two feet of boom length are pretty much worthless.) If the boom was hanging out over the gap between the legs, I basically had to retract the boom entirely and use it right at the stand. (That means the boom in general is pretty much worthless.) The conclusion I came to was that I couldn't trust any LDC on this stand unless I didn't need to use the boom, and frankly, a mic stand without a boom is like a day without sunshine....
I don't use the words "complete garbage" to describe hardware very often, but in this case, I'm being generous. I'd give you a week, max, before you either return yours to MF or throw it in the trash can to save the return shipping costs....
Just my $0.02. Your mileage may vary. If you already own these stands, I recommend adding one of
these.
