Is it truthfully important to store a ribbon upright rather than laying down?

[Brackish]

Or is this just one of those tales without any
merit? Normally I keep all my stuff in
one case and this would require me to store
this one mic on a shelf serarate from
everything else.

 

[XLR]

It should be stored so that the ribbon is vertical. Keeps the ribbon from stretching. My M160 has a red dot on it for that purpose and it's supposed to be stored with the dot pointed up. How you orient the mic when stored depends on whether it's a side-address or end-address mic.

Tim

 

[Brackish]

With a side address, the proper way would be
with the XLR connection socket on the
bottom, correct?

 

[BigRay]

It should be stored so that the ribbon is vertical. Keeps the ribbon from stretching. My M160 has a red dot on it for that purpose and it's supposed to be stored with the dot pointed up. How you orient the mic when stored depends on whether it's a side-address or end-address mic.

Tim

a dot is circular..how do you know which end is up

 

[Harvey Gerst]

Not only is it important to keep the ribbon vertical, but it also helps to reverse the mic position to keep the ribbon from sagging downward. That's one of the reasons that big studios often hung their ribbon mics upside down. The ribbon is only clamped in two places, the top and bottom.

 

[littledog]

Royer says that it is not necessary on their mics, which is fortunate, because the wooden cases are pretty narrow.

 

[Brackish]

Not only is it important to keep the ribbon vertical, but it also helps to reverse the mic position to keep the ribbon from sagging downward. That's one of the reasons that big studios often hung their ribbon mics upside down. The ribbon is only clamped in two places, the top and bottom.

Where is the top and the bottom of the ribbon
on a side address mic? North and south (i.e. the
ribbon runs vertically up and down)?

 

[XLR]

a dot is circular..how do you know which end is up

There are actually red dots on opposite sides of the ball end of the mic (for those who haven't seen an M160, it's shaped a bit like an SM58 but thinner). It's stored laying on its side with either of the dots pointed up. It's an end-address mic.

Tim

 

[cannabis]

Where is the top and the bottom of the ribbon
on a side address mic? North and south (i.e. the
ribbon runs vertically up and down)?

you are correct

sir

and you can probably see it

if you look into the mic

with the correct lighting

 

[soundchaser59]

Not only is it important to keep the ribbon vertical, but it also helps to reverse the mic position to keep the ribbon from sagging downward. That's one of the reasons that big studios often hung their ribbon mics upside down. The ribbon is only clamped in two places, the top and bottom.

That's why my ribbon came inside a case and pointing upside down! CoooooooL! I'll remember that!