How do you store your mics

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Well, one thing is for sure that you have to keep the mics away from dust. But it seems like that the moisture in air is also an issue, especially to condenser microphones. Then how do you keep your mics when they are not in use?

Is it a dumb question? Well, I am a newbie, so whatever!
 
Original box or bag.

Condensation is more of a problem when it's a vocal mic and there's someone breathing on it. Or if you're outdoors and it's raining. At which point you want to let it dry out before boxing it. Or use the siliwhatever packs that absorb moisture and comes with most things that you buy that come in a box. Or the incandescent light bulb trick.

For the ones that I don't put away, I generally leave the fake fur socks on them, or cover them with a plastic bag to keep dust from settling on them. Crown royal bag or whatever you happen to have in your inventory. Eventually I'll probably get some sort of flight case type thing. But I don't travel enough to warrant it. And my current rigging kind of functions towards that type of thing for my limited travel.
 
Original boxes, bags, pouches and in my rock'n'roll filing cabinet.
 
I sleep with all of mine. ;) keeps them all nice and toasty.
 
Most of mine came with their own aluminum flight cases...and the few that didn't, came in boxes.
That's how I store them. I have a cabinet where all the mics are stacked in their cases/boxes on the shelves.

I'm lucky that my old mother still sews...so when she comes up from Florida to stay with me in the summer, I had her sew up bags for most of the mics out of some pure silk cloth she had no use for.
They look real cool, are breathable, but the silk weave is tight enough so no dust/dirt gets in.
I also keep some gel packs in the cases to suck up moisture.
 
In their original packaging, usually well protected, easy to identify each mic.

If was going to take them on the road I'd go to a hunting store and get pistol cases, do everything a flight case will do for a fraction of the cost.
 
Dogbreath said:
yeah...the rock-n-roll filing cabinets work waaay better than the jazz or country cabinets. ;)


(ssup GrimDude :D )
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Well, the country ones are just too twangy and the jazz ones never shut the same way twice ! :eek:

{:drunk: to you, good sir !}
 
ilovemusic said:
...it seems like that the moisture in air is also an issue, especially to condenser microphones.!
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I live in Florida, about 6miles from the OCEAN.

Dont fret about it.

(Keep my stuff in the cases/boxes in an office vertical filing cabinet)
 
TimOBrien said:
I live in Florida, about 6miles from the OCEAN.

Dont fret about it.

(Keep my stuff in the cases/boxes in an office vertical filing cabinet)
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Seems nobody really worries about the moisture issue on condenser microphones. Well, I think I should not worry too much about it either. Thank you guys!
 
To combat moisture issues, I prefer to bury my mics in piles of sawdust when they aren't in use.
 
guitaristic said:
To combat moisture issues, I prefer to bury my mics in piles of sawdust when they aren't in use.
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Do you wrap you mics with some cloth or something like that before you put them into the sawdust, or you just put them in without anything wrapped around them? I assume put them in a plastic bag is not a very good idea.
 
Christina Y said:
Do you wrap you mics with some cloth or something like that before you put them into the sawdust, or you just put them in without anything wrapped around them? I assume put them in a plastic bag is not a very good idea.
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No no no no no no no...I was just kidding. :D

KIDDING!

I just keep mine in the cases/boxes they came in!
 
To keep my mics dry I store them in the bathroom. The only downside is that there's too much reverb in there.
 
Bag with silica gel packs. Flight case if there was one, most of my mics came in pouches.
 
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