homemade mic mount

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knightfly said:
I got one of those, sorta - actually made for the purpose by Luxo, the lamp people - used it for a live mic stand for couple years (attached to a keyboard stack) - thing had a nasty resonance around 5-6 kHz, so I stopped using it. Still, for a talkback or slate mic, very handy ONLY when you NEED it to be... Steve
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Did you use a shockmount with that? It was probably the springs resonating? A good fix for quieting springs is to tie them with shockcord from your local chandlery.
 
I just experimented with mine... didn't resonate at all. Coooooooooool. Even had a velcro strap ready :)
 
frederic, what was the diamiter of the hole on your mic arm? How big did you make the mounting rod?
 
notbradsohner said:
frederic, what was the diamiter of the hole on your mic arm? How big did you make the mounting rod?
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I see you found this thread, I had just finished reposting the pictures on the other thread for you.

The round stock is 1" diameter, and approximately 3" long or thereabouts. It was a piece lying on the floor, so I recycled. The hole bored down is 2 1/8" in depth and 1/2" diameter so my mic arm fits snugly but not too snug. The side plates are 4" square (could/should have used 4" angle iron instead - less cutting and welding), and the top triangular plate is a 4" square piece I cut 1/2" off the center as marked between opposite corners. This allowed me to place the vertical steel round slightly further away from the wall. This way the arm bangs on the sheet rock less.

Since it's steel, I wirewheeled off any rust I saw to some minimalist degree, then sprayed it with krylon primer, then krylon hunter green which more or less matches the moulding in my studio.

At the top of this post I have three designs, all very easy to make if you can weld. When I made this one, I looked at it and thought it was not my best work, I could have ground the beads more, but you know what, on the wall, you don't even notice it.

Perfect is the enemy of good enough. The only thing I'm going to do to mine is slip a nylon washer between the arm and the mount - so there is no squeeking.
 
Oh, and wire wheel the paint off the bottom of the steel round and weld on a headphone hook :)

The hook will be nothing more than a bent 3/8" round with the tip rounded off, welded to the bottom, then prime and paint.

I keep forgetting the darn headphone hook! ! !
 
ill be working on that tonight. Thanks for posting the pics in the other thread!
 
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