Harvey Gerst
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I guess we'll hafta agree to disagree. I just came from doing a session where my MXL V77 slide out of its shock mount and would have hit the floor from about 6 feet up (if I hadn't thought to secure the cord securely to the stand). I'm still trying to find a 100% safe solution to using a mic upside down in the Chinese shock mount.knowdoubt said:
"when you position it correctly" is the key phrase here. I guess I'm a little less satisfied than you are with the mounting mechanism of the B series, since the mic can & will fall out of the mic if upside down & turned to a position in which the extrusion lines up with the gap in the mic clip. This means you don't have the full 360 degrees of rotational positioning in the mic clip at your option when mounted upside down. It's not an insurmountable handicap or a design weakness worthy of disqualifying the mics but I believe it deserves mention as a weakness or something that could have been a little better implemented. I suspect over time in the hustle & bustle a few mics will hit the floor because of it.
-Stephen-
I think the B series mount is a pretty clever way to hold the mic in place. Insert, then turn to lock.
I try very hard not to "hustle or bustle" when I'm putting mics on stands, since I do have a few very heavy ribbon mics that would be severely damaged were they to ever fall.