Topic: Foam vs. Furry: Windscreen question?

[tradja]

Summer is coming (it may in fact have arrived where you are, but here in Tahoe, it snowed this weekend).  Thanks to the kind folks on this board, I have finally assembled a really basic rig and I am looking forward to outdoor shows!

Foam vs. Furry?  I have some basic grey foam balls to fit SM58's (from my second mics - Shure 588 dynamic vocal mics ).  Are these worth running outdoors, or are they really just pop filters designed to absorb beer spray?  Yes, they're big inside so I'd have to rubberband them onto my Oktavas.  Would it be worth it?

I'd love to get some furry windscreens but I'm really done spending money (at least for a little while!)  

Thanks!  As a result of reading this board the past few months, Saturday night I went to see a friend's African drum group and I made my first AUD tape that is just awesome.  No more overloaded, clipped, tinny tapes for me!

[fozzy]

On my oktavas i ran some really cheap screens that didn't do much in the wind just mainly smoke screens.  In windy situations i had some SM58 style screen that fit over the top of the other screens.  Never had any problems.  If you got some cash burning a whole in your pocket get some dpa windscreens.  I don't think you will be able to tell the difference, unless you are running in some quiet situations w/ lots of wind.  

+t on the awesome tape.  

[jpschust]

he means DPA screens, not DPA mics :-D

[tradja]

Thanks for the fabric-shop-faux-fur technology, Moke.  I was wondering if doing something like that would totally muffle the highs, making it sound like I was running the mics from inside my backpack.

Great budget solution!  

 

If you got some cash burning a whole in your pocket get some dpa's.

Unfortunately, it's my wish list that's burning a hole in my pocket.

[fozzy]

he means DPA screens, not DPA mics :-D

yea sorry about that, check out the archive section thread about windscreens.

[tooldvn]

tradja,

http://www.rycote.com/products/lavalerie/default.htm  

I'm in the market for windscreens as well (had my last indoor tape fucked by a AC draft somewhere), so I followed your link Moke, and went to the main page where I saw "the zeppelin modular windshield":

http://www.rycote.com/products/windshield/default.htm

Why on earth would you want to cover the body and end cable of your mic? Shouldn't you just be worried about the caps?

-dvn

[John Kelly]

tradja,

http://www.rycote.com/products/lavalerie/default.htm  

I'm in the market for windscreens as well (had my last indoor tape fucked by a AC draft somewhere), so I followed your link Moke, and went to the main page where I saw "the zeppelin modular windshield":

http://www.rycote.com/products/windshield/default.htm

Why on earth would you want to cover the body and end cable of your mic? Shouldn't you just be worried about the caps?

-dvn

It's used in film and TV a lot.

[tooldvn]

I'm in the market for windscreens as well (had my last indoor tape fucked by a AC draft somewhere), so I followed your link Moke, and went to the main page where I saw "the zeppelin modular windshield":

http://www.rycote.com/products/windshield/default.htm

Why on earth would you want to cover the body and end cable of your mic? Shouldn't you just be worried about the caps?

-dvn

It's used in film and TV a lot.

Yeah, but why?  

[tooldvn]

The blimp is likely a one size fits all device, and is constructed to handle everything from 480's/ 184 size mics, on up to shotguns. A smaller mic will disappear into the inside of the blimp in order to be mounted properly.

helpful?

I understand the whole fur/micro climate deal.  However, the blimp doesn't have any openings for mic bodies/cables to stick out on larger mics.  It appears to be designed so that (for the mics that will fit inside it anyway)  it completely encloses the entire mic body/cable etc, and I just think that's silly, but whatever.  I'm gonna send them an e-mail and see what reasoning they have behind it.  I'll report back! ;-)

-dvn