Studio Mic Stand Idea(s)

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In prior studios pro and home, I've always used a floor-standing boom stand, to hold the microphone at the proper location for recording vocalists.

With this small booth I have, 5'x7' or thereabouts, I'd rather not give up the floor space, as I'm going to try and leave my PF-85 in there even when recording vocals.

So I was thinking... why not fabricate or purchase, a wall mount microphone stand?

Anyone hear of such a thing? samash, zzounds, musiciansfriend, sweetwater haven't heard of such a thing, and fullcompass neither.

If I have to make this, I was thinking of copying an architect's lamp, which attaches to the edge of the drawing surface, and can adjust in any which way easily, just making it a little stronger to better support the mic's shockmount and additional weight of a nice microphone.
 
Not wall mounts, but I've thought about ceiling mounts. All you'd need is a piece of 1" X 3" x 1/8" steel and weld the top part of a stand (maybe 4" worth) to it. Then you could screw your boom arm into it. Just make sure that you screw the mount into a stud with 3" or 4" screws. You may even consider putting a peice of rubber between the mount and the drywall to cut back vibrations to the stand.

It's what I will likely do when my celing is no longer my landlords.

Chris
 
yeah...just use those swivel arm things you always see in radio stations with the RE20 hanging off of it.... or attach your mic stand to the ceiling using whatever creative method you come up with. You can always get those desk mount threaded things (also for use to attach to guitar amp cabinets) and screw those to the ceiling/wall
http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-MUS-TMO2C.html

then maybe a gooseneck or two...
 
Full Compass DOES have the swing arm stands (for much less than the BSW link). Check out their on-line catalog, page 250 (I couldn't get a link for some reason).

Another option would be to attach a threaded base to the ceiling and get a really long gooseneck.

Darryl.....
 
"we MUST have great minds, thinking alike, eh?? "

When I first logged into this topic, I went out looking for the Full Compass link since I knew I had seen it in my catalog, then the phone rang and I got distracted with work, then remembered I needed to finish my post, so by that time you had already posted but I hadn't seen it.

Great minds? Maybe (at least, maybe for you :D ). In my case it just happens to be something I was also thinking about over the weekend :p

Darryl.....
 
Okay, now I need to learn something. How do you all do those cool quotations?

Darryl.....
 
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Just remove the spaces inside the brackets.
 
Cool. I learned something new today. Now I can quit :D

Thanks mshilarious.....
 
Thanks everyone for the ideas... that link to that bendy mic stand thing is probably what i'll go with, making a simple corner mount for it...

that was exactly what I was trying to describe with my earlier architect lamp analogy.... just didn't know what to call it!
 
Hello frederic. I've already done it. I made some brackets that fastened (2)10 ft steel tri -truss's to the ceiling, 8' apart. Then I made brackets for holding 2 tracks per truss, (for a pocket door), which hung on the truss. The truss gave room for the rear end of mic booms. Then I custom made brackets that I welded to a short piece of the actual mic stand tube which allowed it to be fastened to the wheel carriage that rides in the tracks., The other end had the standard threads for screwing on the boomstand adjuster. Worked like a charm. I could move 2 mic booms 10 feet per track. 2 parallel truss's 8 feet apart, with booms, gave me a lot of flexibility. I drilled and threaded a hole in the carriages for a lockdown so they wouldn't move. I could rotate the booms, extend them, move them on the track, and angle the booms. One even had a DOUBLE BOOM for awkward situations, and one even had the DOUBLE mic clip brackets for the end of the boom when there were two people or what ever. Anyway, I'll dig out the brackets and take some pics of them. The tri-truss, is what I drew that time for your console, remember? Its out back of the house. I haven't installed it since I moved.
fitZ :)
 
Well, since I haven't mounted them yet, here is a couple of old files showing the units. I detailed these to know what I was building. :)
 

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Wow, Rick, wow.

While I don't have the ceiling height for a truss structure (unless I make it much shallower), I like that idea a lot... VERY cool.

Hmmmm... I sense another fabrication project :)
 
My local music store (Juck Lewis in Weaton/MD) has wall- and ceiling-mounted booms just as you described. They're cheap, too, and look amazing.
 
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