Topic: Running Actives coincident with windscreens?

[Matt Quinn]

Any advice? I can run coincident pretty much perfectly with my Vark bar, but even small windscreens seem to throw the set up off. Would be awesome if there was an X/Y windscreen kinda like the Schoeps M/S screen, with the holes for the caps at a 90* angle.

[Craig T]

that Schoeps m/s windscreen is worthless.

[tgakidis]

Higher spacer.  Go get a 3/8" coupler & bolt from the hardware store.

[Matt Quinn]

Higher spacer.  Go get a 3/8" coupler & bolt from the hardware store.

Yes, that could work, but I want to keep vertical spacing between the caps to a minimum. I'll give it a try though.

[tgakidis]

Higher spacer.  Go get a 3/8" coupler & bolt from the hardware store.

Yes, that could work, but I want to keep vertical spacing between the caps to a minimum. I'll give it a try though.

Understood....

[Will_S]

Higher spacer.  Go get a 3/8" coupler & bolt from the hardware store.

Yes, that could work, but I want to keep vertical spacing between the caps to a minimum.

Well, depending on how the size of your capsules compare to the DPA 4011, there is this:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/309855-REG/DPA_Microphones_DUA0075_DUA0075_XY_Windscreen_for.html

[Matt Quinn]

Higher spacer.  Go get a 3/8" coupler & bolt from the hardware store.

Yes, that could work, but I want to keep vertical spacing between the caps to a minimum.

Well, depending on how the size of your capsules compare to the DPA 4011, there is this:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/309855-REG/DPA_Microphones_DUA0075_DUA0075_XY_Windscreen_for.html

Booya, that sounds like what I'm talking about. And at $50, not too bad. Now just to make sure it fits....

[Kush]

If your mics are too thin in diameter for the holes in that DPA X/Y windscreen you can always use a ring of electrical tape on the mics to build up their thickness.

[manitouman]

Higher spacer.  Go get a 3/8" coupler & bolt from the hardware store.

Yes, that could work, but I want to keep vertical spacing between the caps to a minimum.

Well, depending on how the size of your capsules compare to the DPA 4011, there is this:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/309855-REG/DPA_Microphones_DUA0075_DUA0075_XY_Windscreen_for.html

Booya, that sounds like what I'm talking about. And at $50, not too bad. Now just to make sure it fits....

19 mm diameter for the DPA 4011's

[wklitz]

that Schoeps m/s windscreen is worthless.

I always thought mine did an alright job....what are you using for outdoors?

[Craig T]

that Schoeps m/s windscreen is worthless.

I always thought mine did an alright job....what are you using for outdoors?

I borrowed one and used it exactly twice and both times had tons of wind noise.  I use a old LD windscreen I had lying around - the hole is big enough to fit both caps.  I'm still looking for a better solution.

[Brian Skalinder]

Does the DPA Microphones DUA0075 XY Windscreen for 4011 allow one to change the included angle, or does it lock one into a fixed angle, like 90º?

[digifish_music]

Any advice? I can run coincident pretty much perfectly with my Vark bar, but even small windscreens seem to throw the set up off. Would be awesome if there was an X/Y windscreen kinda like the Schoeps M/S screen, with the holes for the caps at a 90* angle.

You could try using the windscreen from an NT4...should be a fair amount of wriggle-room to change the angle.



Should be about $USD 15

digifish

[Alexandru Petrescu]

About WMS and the need for more wind protection...

Frustrated with the WMS foam on M/S CMBIs in even light wind, I just ordered 2 fur-style windscreens from thewindcutter.com; no experience with them as of yet, eagerly waiting.  They have 4 versions, variable hair length, presumably withstanding from low to high wind.  The WMS foam dimensions are diameter 72mm and length 60mm.  I bought a measuring tool only for this :-)

About other ways I've explored:

Unfortunately WMS foam is smaller than the smaller Schoeps baskets (smallest Schoeps basket I think is 150mm diameter IIRC), so third-party fur-style windscreens for Schoeps baskets (e.g. Rycote) wouldn't work on WMS, I suppose.

Schoeps was kind enough (thanks!) to offer advice about Schoeps and Rycote windscreens - all are baskets.  Unfortunately they'd make inaccessible the on/off/attenuate switches on the CMBIs - imagine removing the fur and open the basket only to turn a switch, not feasible for me.

I do think this basket advice is very pertinent for Actives (not CMBIs), which seems to be your case.

My current conclusion is that thewindcutter.com is the only strong wind solution for WMS on CMBI M/S... and I would love to learn about other possibilities, especially from Schoeps if they ever make one.

(not affiliated with thewindcutter.com, no particular interest).

[digifish_music]

Any advice? I can run coincident pretty much perfectly with my Vark bar, but even small windscreens seem to throw the set up off. Would be awesome if there was an X/Y windscreen kinda like the Schoeps M/S screen, with the holes for the caps at a 90* angle.

You could try using the windscreen from an NT4...should be a fair amount of wriggle-room to change the angle.



Should be about $USD 15

digifish

BTW: The Dead Kitten (extra fuy cover) fits over the WS4 foam pop-shield.