Topic: Usefulness of Shock Mounts

[F.O.Bean]

When shockmounts might not help

miss ya Goo!

we miss ya goo, come back soon........

[Simp-Dawg]

One word, well maybe two..... Beach Balls

My stand always seem to be magnets for beach balls. Not once can you tell that I've been hit on my tapes


If you got them, use them.

unless they hit on the mic itself though....

but i agree, shock mounts are a necessity at almost any show where there's a remote chance something can bump your stand, which is, almost any show.

[Kindguy]

haha I love that pic! T+ to Goo....hope he's doing OK

[John R]

shockmounts, always.

jr

[Chapper]

Chapper,

what Modest Mouse show were you taping?

9/10/00 at the Gothic

[Chapper]

Hey Chapper, that's what I'm thinking, depending of course on the venue.  For example, for a gig in a sit-down music hall, where there's an elevated stage and hard-ass concrete under the seats, it seems to me that the need for shocks is little if any.  That's the situation in which I'm considering going without shocks.

Throwrag recently did two nights in Denver, first night I ran my Neumann STH mount in a Schoeps A20 (I think) shockmount.  2nd night I didn't use it.   I can hear no audible difference.  
A lot of folks swear by them, not me though....I don't have the A20 anymore, don't think I'll be buying another either.    

[greenone]

One word, well maybe two..... Beach Balls

Haha...ah, memories. I think I killed at least a half-dozen beach balls at Red Rocks this summer over two days. :splat:

Of course, that didn't stop the idiots from having marshmallow fights and pelting the FOH area with them during the filming of a DVD...  

[marc0789]

they don't do jackshit, imo. I kicked down 68 bucks for an Schoeps A20S to mount my dpa cmxo in. I had a couple of stand bumps during los/del and hear 'em the same as I think I would have without the mount. Waste of cash. For acoustic music, won't help at all, and for loud as shit electric music, you probably won't hear it anyway unless the shit is totally fallen into. At McPanic 4/12 during blackout a beachball full on hit the mbhos clamped onto my stand, just missing the dpas and moving the stand. You can barely hear it with phones, and if you didn't know where it was, you couldn't find it. That was with the dpa bar screwed right onto a low pro running about 5'10".

[Arglebargle]

So far I've been lucky and only once did I have to catch my falling mic stand, and about three others at the same time, and I cannot hear where it happened in mine with shock mounts, the guy running DPAs without shockmounts has a little audio souvinier(sp!!!) of that encounter so I've been told, but does preventing one small glitch in three years of taping justify the expense I'm not so sure.

[Jason B]

That was with the dpa bar screwed right onto a low pro running about 5'10".

Well, that DPA XY/ORTF bar is basically a shockmount though with the rubber "floating" rings that support the mic. Right?

-JB

[Brian]

hey guys,
a fellow taper told me last night that shockmounts are called shockmounts because they prevent electro-static  "shocks" to your microphone by suspending them in rubber. removing sounds because of your stand getting bumped is a secondary goal.

what do you all think? seems to make sense to me. wouldn't want some static electricity ruin a sweet pair of mics like Schoeps or DPAs if i owned them.

the AT mounts rule!

Brian

[Kevin]

just thought id share another useful reason for shocks.  This weekend in New york we were on bleachers, like columbia, at least behind the board and some stupid w00k knocked my stand but because of the shocks the tapes are fine

[marc0789]

cmxo doesn't float the caps, the rubber rings just secure them into the mount slots.