I need a nice boom stand for recording acoustic guitar. Any suggestions?

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Like I said, I need a good boom stand for recording acoustic guitar. It is gonna have a pretty heavy condenser rhode NT2 mic on it, and the cheap stands I used before were just not stable enough. I really do not know what to buy! Help me!

Thanks guys, you are the best!
 
Tama makes a really nice short boom that is great for guitar.
 
K&M are good classic stands in that regard. They come with short booms, and if you find the mic is a bit heavier than what is comfortable, a light sandbag or a clamp-on weight will set you at ease.

On-Stage also make good stand/boom combos.

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Tama makes a really nice short boom that is great for guitar.

I'm assuming you mean the MS205ST low-profile stand. I haven't used them, but I've used their standard-height big brother. They're a little light for things like RSM-2 ribbons and other similar giant hunks of iron, but otherwise, they're solid, reliable stands. I wouldn't trust anything lighter duty with actual mics on them. I nearly lost an RSM-2 to a cheap stand once. Caught it with a diving motion just before it hit the ground. :)

Just be careful to always keep the boom over one of the legs and not halfway between them if you have the boom most of the way out with a heavy mic. Same problem you'd have with any tripod stand, really.

Well, almost any tripod stand. I have a huge tripod stand... probably from On Stage, but I'm not sure since the label is on the part of the center shaft that we cut off to lower it a foot to fit in the piano at short stick. That thing will flat hold anything at maximum extension without falling. Of course, the leg spread is almost as wide as I am tall, so.... :D

I wouldn't recommend the smaller On Stage Stands or Nady stands or Musician's Friend stands or other similar stands (most of the stands you find for $30 and under); they're just too light for larger mics, IMHO.



In this photo, note two things:

1. The silver mic stand that is holding two cymbals and an add-on tom is a Tama.
2. The black vertical post that is sagging under the weight of a pencil condenser is one of the stock Chinese-made stands that gets rebranded under various names like Nady, On Stage, MF, etc.

Hence the reason I recommend the Tama stands.... I relegated the cheap stands to overhead duty because that's all they would hold reliably. :D
 
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