I mentioned reworking the rig pictured above a month back before a previous fest - Amp Jam #1 on Suwannee - which in part included eliminating all gaffer tape, now used only for repairs and other temporary applications. Woo!
A couple important improvements were made regarding how the Movo windscreens containing the miniature DPA 4097 supercardioids are mounted and sealed to prevent wind entry from the rear. Below are a few photos of some details of that, followed by a couple taken during the opening set of the fest including one from up front looking back toward the section.
The DPA 4097 supercardioid is the same diameter as the 4060/1 omnis, but are about 2" long and require more robust wind protection. Movos work well for that but are sized to fit a typical 19 or 20mm diameter SDC, so I fit the mics to the windscreens using little foam cylinders pulled from a cheap dollar-store hair curler set. They're open cell foam, the right length and diameter, and feature a hole through the center which is perfectly sized to fit the microphone. Indoors those alone are usually sufficient, but years ago I decided to just run the bigger windscreens everywhere, simply because switching to them when necessary was somewhat of a PITA, and because I ended up using the windscreens themselves as the mic-mounts, which additionally provides a limited amount of shock isolation that's fully sufficient for my needs. I've posted about those little foam cylinders in these threads in the past as I used them with the big ass Shure's before moving to the Movos.
One problem is that the hole in the rubber cuff of the Movo is too large to seal around the small diameter gooseneck of the microphone. In the past I've used gaffer tape to seal that, but it doesn't adhere well to the cuff rubber, so it took a few strips to cover the entire back of the Movo which wrapped around the edge of the cuff secured by an additional narrow strip of gaffer tape wrapped around the cuff like a belt. Not pretty or neat but it worked. That's now all eliminated, replaced by by a neoprene disk that fits tightly around the mic-gooseneck and is snugged up tightly against the back of the cuff. I cut the neoprene disks out of an old large mouse-pad. The two on the rear-facing pair features an additional small hole through the disk which is offset slightly from center. That accommodates the support bar which is about the same diameter as the gooseneck and supports the windscreen by wedging between the Movo and the hair curler foam insert.
The Movos used on the forward-facing near-spaced (~24") pair are now attached directly to the horizontal bar via a stainless-steel hose clamp around the Movo cuff (clamp band is covered in black heat-shrink) and a black zip-tie. The zip-tie is routed in a figure-8 pattern around the bar and the adjustable-screw part of the clamp, an arrangement which secures the Movo tightly to the bar while still allowing sufficient rotational freedom in the horizontal plane to angle that pair mics +/-45 degrees away from center as I typically do, or narrow them to PAS when necessary.
Note- In the second to last photo looking up at the mic array from below, the stage is located below bottom edge of the photo.
