MadAudio said:
On-Stage has several varieties of mic stands, and this particular one is a piece of crap. Just try to get it to hold position without over-torquing or using duct tape. Most of the parts are plastic and overall it just isn't up to lots of use. That said, I have some On-Stage stuff that is quite good for the price.
Buy cheap, and buy twice. Save up for something that is at least mostly metal.
Agreed. This one is pretty darn close to the Nady stands that I have, which will barely hold a pencil condenser (Nady CM-90) at full extension (and sag while doing so).
The cheapest mic stand that's worth touching, IMHO, would be the Tama mic stands. They go for about twice what this cheap one costs. They'll hold my Nady ribbon mic (heavier than any LDC I've seen by at least a factor of three or four). In fact, they'll hold a 10" rack tom and a pair of cymbals.
Note the slightly curved Nady stand behind it, sagging under the weight of an SDC.
Oh, and yes, I know the cymbal sucks. It's also at a different pitch than my other 16" cymbal, so I keep it around for a different color. I like to have fun with the cymbals, using them in a semi-tonal fashion, going down from high to low in parallel with the keyboard line.
BTW, the claimed retail price is pretty off-the-charts ridiculous. I paid about that much for the stand that holds the mic in my piano (
VP-88 at full extension). I think it is made by On-Stage Stands (but has no label, as I had to shorten the center pipe a few inches to make it fit in my piano on short stick). It has a tripod base that's 42 inches from the tip of one foot to the tip of another. Now -that- is a mic stand worth $99.
