jonrusso99
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Hi all,
Quick question, do most people in Europe use mic stands with 3/8inch or 5/8 inch threads?
Thanks!
Quick question, do most people in Europe use mic stands with 3/8inch or 5/8 inch threads?
Thanks!
Hi all,
Quick question, do most people in Europe use mic stands with 3/8inch or 5/8 inch threads?
Thanks!
3/8" is the standard - the horrible 5/8" thread is a US thing.
You never see 5/8" thread stands in Europe, unless it's a US make (eg: Latch Lake) and then you will normally find a 3/8" adaptor permanently on the end (like I do with my Latch Lake).
Meter is the standard but the UK seems to be caught somewhere inbetween listening to their cooler, younger brother (USA) and being traditionalists when it comes to all kinds of measurement. People here seem to transition fluently between kilometers, miles, liters, pints, feet and meters.
Last one I bought was 3/8 and I also have a box of adaptors...
And just because you "go metric" doesn't mean you change everything that already exists Jimmy! No-one was going to call the 3/8 fitting the 9.525mm fitting just because they went metric (and we're way more metric than the UK is) ... or insist that a new 10mm microphone fitting be invented... although I'm sure the manufacturers wouldn't mind....
I once sent a newbie assistant off to find me some 6.35mm to 1/4 inch TRS adaptors...kept him busy for hours!
Exactly!
As perhaps one of the oldest forumites here I can tell all you noobs that for microphone mounting ..It was ever thus!
In UK most mics were either home grown, STC, Reslo, Audax, Grampian or imports from the states. Then Japan started making them. Yes, some were outright US copies but they soon developed their own styles but kept to US fittings. The only recourse for the PA/Recordist was, as now, a bag of brass bits!
But I shall now commit the ultimate Old Fart sin and say "You young 'uns don't know you're born!"
In addition to multiple stand fitting (more than now iirc) the audio connectors were almost peculiar to mic maker! Thus a Reslo had a male 3pin that LOOKED like an XLR (or "Cannon" as they were then called) but wasn't . Grampians had two 3mm wide slits at 90dgrs and just about everybody else "rolled their own"!
Just to add to all the audio conn' confusion we also had to cope with 7 different mains sockets and a supply that could be anything from 200 to 250 volts depending on where you were in the country.
But! Back to modern mic stands. Thomann do a vast range and for the home recordist I see no point in paying for "pro" quality stands? Also, look for the 1/2 sized stands? Just right for fronting an amp or seated acoustic guitar. They also come with a heavy flat base about 600x400mm instead of splayed legs and these are dead handy in the cramped space of most projjy studio bedrooms. Mic mounts that "G" clamp to a table are also useful and cheap.
Dave.
But! Back to modern mic stands. Thomann do a vast range and for the home recordist I see no point in paying for "pro" quality stands? Also, look for the 1/2 sized stands? Just right for fronting an amp or seated acoustic guitar. They also come with a heavy flat base about 600x400mm instead of splayed legs and these are dead handy in the cramped space of most projjy studio bedrooms. Mic mounts that "G" clamp to a table are also useful and cheap.
Dave.
Just curious why you say the 5/8" thing is horrible.
I am also confused tho. Isn't the metric system the standard type of measurement over there? How is 3/8" even a standard there?
Just curious why you say the 5/8" thing is horrible.
I am also confused tho. Isn't the metric system the standard type of measurement over there? How is 3/8" even a standard there?
I am sincerely just curious.