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Title: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: leshlush on April 24, 2006, 09:41:25 AM

I run a set of c4's and have been doing so for close to a year but it has always been in indoor venues... I therefor have never bothered w/ my windscreens...

Next Saturday, I will be running my first outdoor show...

I was wondering whether or not I should run windcreens no matter what or whether it depends on how windy it actually is ???

I imagine that even the slightest bit of wind will be picked up on my mics if I don't run windscreens so I should therefor run windscreens no matter what, but I'm not sure... And I'm not sure if the windscreens will muffle my sound...

Has anyone run the C4 stock windscreens??? Do they muffle the sound??? Do you just run them anytime your outdoors???

Any suggestions, opinions, or help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks folks

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: leshlush on April 24, 2006, 09:45:59 AM

I just have the one's that came with my set of C4s, will they do the trick???

Or will they not be enough, even if it isn't that windy of a day???

I would think that they would be considered the skinny ones...

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: oniontaper on April 24, 2006, 09:48:51 AM

FYI

those screens that came w/ your C-4s are worthless in any kind of real wind. (i use mine as smoke protectors at indoor venues)
You'll want to get some DPA's or the fatty Shure's, even the furry rats work better then the stock screens.

& they should not muffle sound

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: leshlush on April 24, 2006, 09:50:54 AM

+T's gentleman

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: timP on April 24, 2006, 10:23:46 AM

run them even when you think you might not need them... got head f'd last weekend in a party ten outdoors at 10'..

musts been a sneaky breeze that was pushing thru the tent flaps.... wind noise all over the tape

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: willndmb on April 24, 2006, 11:52:20 AM

i run them 99% of the time too, the only time i don't is indoors where i know for a fact no one will smoke
even then sometimes i do for dust

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: jeromejello on April 24, 2006, 12:24:24 PM

alway

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: ballerusk on April 24, 2006, 12:30:12 PM

Yes, I guess it would be best to use them all the time to keep the microphones as "clean" as possible.

[/stating the obvious]

Anyone had any special difference between using and not using windscreens regarding clarity? I'm thinking about a place where it's no wind.

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: machinelf on April 25, 2006, 11:03:15 AM

I recently had some noise in a recording I made inside a club, and it took me a minute to realize that it was from the damn ceiling fan overhead... man, did I feel like a dumbass. 

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: grider on April 25, 2006, 12:41:16 PM

always

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: tscales on April 26, 2006, 05:50:21 PM

Are the windscreens that came with my AKG 393s crappy too? 

Where's a good place to pick up some quality windscreen for my stuff?

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: kskreider on April 26, 2006, 06:40:48 PM

Has anyone said always yet?   :P  I always run screens unless I am doing tests at home in my smoke-free office.   8)

I run screens in a box.
I run screens with a fox.
I run screens in a house.
I run screens with a mouse.
I run screens here or there.
I run screens anywhere.
I run screens, because I can
I run screens, Sam-I-am.

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: OOK on April 26, 2006, 08:26:23 PM

Quote from: m0k3 on April 24, 2006, 09:43:34 AM

a lot of folk run them all the time, indoors and out.   skinny foams for indoor and fat foams for outdoors.

Ding Ding and the winner is..........mOk3

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: grider on April 27, 2006, 11:31:04 AM

I once taped a terrific Ratdog show, in a great sounding room, with an excellent house mix, and no wind in the room at all, and my recording includes the lovely sound of someone blowing their cigarette smoke into it all night because I did not use windscreens, lesson

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: kbergend on April 28, 2006, 09:14:36 PM

I taped Cowboy Junkies just a week ago in a great-sounding church.  Apparently there was a nice draft in the place about 10' off the floor, and my mics picked up every passing breeze along with the music.

I won't be recording without windscreens again.

Title: Re: When to run Windscreens???
Post by: udovdh on April 29, 2006, 05:05:53 AM

I use them never.
Stopped using them in 1997.
Mics are much smaller without them.
No problems without them indoors, oudoors is OK due to stealthy setup.