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wonderin when we'd hear from you.
A month later and I've finally managed to copy the link to one of my nylon rope+t-bar-no-riser spiderman jobs... tho it seems like I have a knack for killing threads. I'll just link to the already posted message to save bandwidth. I have photos from a different nylon rope suspension, but that may take another month to put together at the moment.
http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,90103.msg1291614.html#msg1291614
Ok, now I get the spidey thing with the supporting web and all.. built in shock suspension to boot with that nylon line.
Not super important here, but one useful property of nylon line is it's ability to stretch, absorb shock and spring back. As I recall, Jacques Cousteau made the deepest ocean anchoring in history using an absurdly long nylon mooring line on the Calypso in the '70's. At the other extreme and usually more useful to me, I've found modern low stretch line (usually available at marine stores for sail boat halyards and such) made from spectra, vectran, and the like to be worlds superior to common polyester for tying or hanging things that shouldn't sag. It's like high performance tires for hanging a hammock - totally transforms it from a sagging rusty Cadillac suspension to a taught German road machine.
I bet Cousteau got a good pull.... er... nevermind.
I like the suspension systems for the exact reasons your stated.
built-in shock absorption, in which case, I think the Cadillac might be better than the Beemer...
The negative, is set up time. It takes some time to get it together, but even with a stand, it can take some time, I guess.
I couldn't find the photos of the stage omnis I hung above the stacks in a small rock club back in January. I'm sure I took photos, but I don't know what happened to them.
That was a pretty crazy rig, getting the mics to point toward the center of the room while hanging from the front edge of the lighting rig, then running the cable from one side to the next.
I seem to have been thwarted by low frequency vibration from the bass guitar, however.
Those nerf balls look pretty interesting, even if just as a substitute for a T-bar.
The basketball above, I remember seeing a while back. That deserves some kind of award.