Just as important as the microphone

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The other thing that touches our microphones (worth hundreds to thousands of dollars) other than the microphone cable and clip or spider is the microphone stand.
I'm feed up with seeing those cheap six stands and carrying case for $99.99 that aren't worth poop with it's high center of gravity, no secondary adjustment of the boom, no counter weight and cheap threading of the clutch.
Let everyone post their favorite stands here and their reasons why.
 
Tama



That's it holding the two cymbals and the extra tom. :D
 
broomstick and duct tape... I keed, I keed...

I've just got a radio shack mic stand, tripod based, On Stage brand. But I paid nearly double in price for the Proline boom arm on it. It's still a bit top heavy, but that's kind of expected with a t-bar, two mics, two cables, wind foam, wind fir, velcro cord ties to keep it all from flapping in the wind, yada yada yada...

I'll probably pop for a hefty photography like light stand and rig a boom arm to it eventually. Baring any inspector gadget type efforts to make me the mic stand, since my rig is little more than a glorified camcorder at the moment.
 
Actually, On Stage builds a relatively inexpensive *kickass* studio boom, namely SB96+. Discontinued but you can still get them from The Sound Room:

http://www.oktava.com/inc/sdetail/388

This is the replacement:

http://www.oktava.com/inc/sdetail/387

Either one of those suckers, you can hang a Solid Tube on it, give it a good swift kick, and then check your boot for damage! I use them for remote recording and in the studio. They are stable enough so you can put them waaay out of the way of the drummer for overheads. For remote recording with a stereo pair, they'll put a pair of mics about 12 feet straight up, if necessary. They are comparable to Atlas stands that cost a lot more.
The tripod version has the advantage that you can adjust the footprint, like a speaker stand. The SB96+ I prefer because it has wheels with locks. One other trick I did- I took the steel adaptors on my stage speaker stands, drilled them out, and used the threaded knobs from a stereo mic bar, and attached booms to them, so my speaker stands can do double duty as mic stands in a pinch.-Richie
 
I got an old pain bucket, an old mop, superglue and a bag of cement.

Use your imagination :D
 
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