Topic: Fave shock mounts for your SDC mics

[waltmon]

Just curious what peoples preferences are. Also looking for a small stand mounted shock to put under an active set-up.

Thanks.

[ScoobieKW]

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/867204-REG/Avantone_Pro_SSM_SSM_Professional_Shockmount.html

replacement O rings available in your local hardware store's plumbing section.

[waltmon]

I have a set of these...love them.

[Ultfris101]

Just started using Rycote Invision INV-6's and they are great. Made for short bodies like the Neumann KM-100s but as was suggested in another thread they work fine with Schoeps CMC6's.

Expensive of course as so many things in this area are, but they are worth it and a lot of other folks seem to agree.

What type of active mounting are you thinking of?

The INV-6's work well if you have actives in a delrin DIN/ORTF bar or similar. One of them can hold the bar just fine.

And the cable management clip is icing on the cake.

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Rycote Invision INV

qft

If you need shockmounts that do the job, they are it with the Shure A53 donuts coming in second (and everything else a distant third). If you just need stuff to keep your mics in the air, then you have options.

[waltmon]

I'll be running 150's with the ds-120 Nuemann mount or a vark bar.   I will eventually be running 4 channel. 

[DigiGal]

Doesn't get any better than Rycote INV's.

[Ultfris101]

I'll be running 150's with the ds-120 Nuemann mount or a vark bar.   I will eventually be running 4 channel.

So that's with the active cable and a non shock clip down to the km-100 in the bag? in that case it's like I run my Naiant AKG actives and my current very cheap solution is to use a cheapo windtech shockmount with a delrin riser stuck in it. Point the mount down so the screw in the riser is pointing straight up and then screw a delrin vark clone or any other stereo bar into then. Then I can mount my actives with the Audix micro mounts which have no shock absorption and be in good shape.

Or I imagine you could use a pair of the Rycotes designed for actives which have a 19mm lyre in front and a much smaller one to hold the back of the active.

An upgrade to an appropriate Rycote invision mount to replace the windtech at some point will happen but for now this works. Rycote is no doubt superior.

[cd2go]

Doesn't get any better than Rycote INV's.

another vote for rycote

[cashandkerouac]

Doesn't get any better than Rycote INV's.

another vote for rycote

+1 for the Rycote INV series.

[DSatz]

My two nominations for audio products of the decade would be Rycote's InVision shock mounts and Neutrik's "EMC"-series XLR connectors; I fail to see why anyone would choose anything else.

[DSatz]

Jon, let's please limit the off-topic conversation in this thread, but I do find pin 1 problems quite often in portable recording equipment, particularly (though by no means exclusively) in low-cost items made in the far East.

Like the honest person who can't bring himself to suspect other people's motives, the care that you take to avoid this issue in your equipment may have given you a touch of false optimism about what the rest of the world is doing ...

--best regards

[adrianf74]

I'm running Actives with Superlux HM-30's on a bar -- call me cheap but they work.   Not sure how much of a shockmount they truly are.  The Avantone one looks pretty decent.

[DigiGal]

My two nominations for audio products of the decade would be Rycote's InVision shock mounts and Neutrik's "EMC"-series XLR connectors; I fail to see why anyone would choose anything else.

QFT

[John Willett]

Just curious what peoples preferences are. Also looking for a small stand mounted shock to put under an active set-up.

When it comes to SDCs there are, IMHO, just two options worth looking at:-

First is the Rycote In-Vision series (the INV-7 will hold almost every SDC on the market).




Second is the "donut" mount as made by Shure, Gefell, etc...  These are not quite as effective as the Rycote, but are pretty close and rather better than the rubber O-ring / elastic mounts.  There advantage is that they are pretty unpbtrusive.



These are the most effective.

The Cinela Osix is also excellent, but is equally effective as the Rycote, but more expensive.

It's well worth reading this article "Keeping Microphones Quiet", as it tests several suspension types.