Clamp recommendations?

[Brian Skalinder]

Superclamp:  Damn...that thing is slick!

[nickgregory]

it is not the lightest or smallest thing, but it is the most versatile clamp on the market today....not much it cant clamp too...and they are avail on ebay all the time...just have to buy the arm separately usually.

[greenone]

Aha...it was the little arm thing I was missing. +T for the clarifying pictures. So that clears up the Bogen superclamp question, because I can see where the arm fits in. And Brian, I know you have an extender bar...John, how do you do yours? Because from what I can tell, the thread is perpendicular to the stand that you'd clamp it on in that bad boy of a clamp.

The Rowi pics I've seen look a little big for my tastes but if that end thread piece can rotate all the way up to be parallel with the stand, it'd be nice to have an all-in-one solution rather than carting around a clamp and extender bar...

--Dave

[nickgregory]

dont let the pictures fool you...the clamp and the arm are not "unwieldly" in size...I keep them both in a crown royal bag in the bag pocket of my rakgear...

[tim in jersey]

my suggestion is use the Superclamp for railings, and the ENG

or Rowi 76a (the one on the left)for clamping onto stands. Put a couple Superclamps w/ full bodied mics on a stand and your just asking for it to fall over.

I carry the ENG and Superclamp at all times...

[nickgregory]

good point, the superclamp is definitely not something you can have more than one of on a stand without weight issues...thankfully, I clamp maybe 2-3 times a year.....with a majority being a railing, which is where the superclamp rocks....

[tim in jersey]

oh, yeah. the Rowi (any of them) probably isn't the best choice for a railing. Probably not big enough for most of the rails I've ever had to clamp to...

[Brian Skalinder]

or Rowi 76a (the one on the left)[img]

Hey Tim - a couple questions on the 76a, if you know:

[1]  Does the ball & socket head rotate through a complete 180º half-sphere with respect to the connection point to the shaft?  Or does it only rotate within a single plane?  (hope that makes sense)

[2]  How is the ball & socket head tightened/secured if it's placed at an angle relative to the rest of the clamp?

I'm looking at the 79BA, too, as it can be used as a small table tripod which I can see using on occasion (and currently have nothing which fits that purpose).

[John R]

Aha...it was the little arm thing I was missing. +T for the clarifying pictures. So that clears up the Bogen superclamp question, because I can see where the arm fits in. And Brian, I know you have an extender bar...John, how do you do yours? Because from what I can tell, the thread is perpendicular to the stand that you'd clamp it on in that bad boy of a clamp.

my gear is in telluride so i can't take any photo's, until after blues and brews, and, i doubt you can wait that long.  so, try to picture this:
- clamp attached to surface with threads facing stage.
- vert bar screwed on with top facing stage.
- tubes oriented with threads of both at middle.
- shockmounts attached, mic placed forward on back mount,  
  back on forward mount, caps equal distance from stage
angle them any way you want

jr

[F.O.Bean]

Aha...it was the little arm thing I was missing. +T for the clarifying pictures. So that clears up the Bogen superclamp question, because I can see where the arm fits in. And Brian, I know you have an extender bar...John, how do you do yours? Because from what I can tell, the thread is perpendicular to the stand that you'd clamp it on in that bad boy of a clamp.

my gear is in telluride so i can't take any photo's, until after blues and brews, and, i doubt you can wait that long.  so, try to picture this:
- clamp attached to surface with threads facing stage.
- vert bar screwed on with top facing stage.
- tubes oriented with threads of both at middle.
- shockmounts attached, mic placed forward on back mount,  
  back on forward mount, caps equal distance from stage
angle them any way you want

jr

what if ya have the shure vert bar???

[John R]

Aha...it was the little arm thing I was missing. +T for the clarifying pictures. So that clears up the Bogen superclamp question, because I can see where the arm fits in. And Brian, I know you have an extender bar...John, how do you do yours? Because from what I can tell, the thread is perpendicular to the stand that you'd clamp it on in that bad boy of a clamp.

my gear is in telluride so i can't take any photo's, until after blues and brews, and, i doubt you can wait that long.  so, try to picture this:
- clamp attached to surface with threads facing stage.
- vert bar screwed on with top facing stage.
- tubes oriented with threads of both at middle.
- shockmounts attached, mic placed forward on back mount,  
  back on forward mount, caps equal distance from stage
angle them any way you want

jr

what if ya have the shure vert bar???

bean, that is the vert bar.  more tubes?

jr

[F.O.Bean]

Aha...it was the little arm thing I was missing. +T for the clarifying pictures. So that clears up the Bogen superclamp question, because I can see where the arm fits in. And Brian, I know you have an extender bar...John, how do you do yours? Because from what I can tell, the thread is perpendicular to the stand that you'd clamp it on in that bad boy of a clamp.

my gear is in telluride so i can't take any photo's, until after blues and brews, and, i doubt you can wait that long.  so, try to picture this:
- clamp attached to surface with threads facing stage.
- vert bar screwed on with top facing stage.
- tubes oriented with threads of both at middle.
- shockmounts attached, mic placed forward on back mount,  
  back on forward mount, caps equal distance from stage
angle them any way you want

jr

what if ya have the shure vert bar???

bean, that is the vert bar.  more tubes?

jr

just cant picture it...i dunno, im sure it werks, but cannot picture it.... :Pi also have the sambra mounts

bean

[John R]

Aha...it was the little arm thing I was missing. +T for the clarifying pictures. So that clears up the Bogen superclamp question, because I can see where the arm fits in. And Brian, I know you have an extender bar...John, how do you do yours? Because from what I can tell, the thread is perpendicular to the stand that you'd clamp it on in that bad boy of a clamp.

my gear is in telluride so i can't take any photo's, until after blues and brews, and, i doubt you can wait that long.  so, try to picture this:
- clamp attached to surface with threads facing stage.
- vert bar screwed on with top facing stage.
- tubes oriented with threads of both at middle.
- shockmounts attached, mic placed forward on back mount,  
  back on forward mount, caps equal distance from stage
angle them any way you want

jr

what if ya have the shure vert bar???

bean, that is the vert bar.  more tubes?

jr

just cant picture it...i dunno, im sure it werks, but cannot picture it.... :Pi also have the sambra mounts

bean

i'll photo next week

jr

[F.O.Bean]

Aha...it was the little arm thing I was missing. +T for the clarifying pictures. So that clears up the Bogen superclamp question, because I can see where the arm fits in. And Brian, I know you have an extender bar...John, how do you do yours? Because from what I can tell, the thread is perpendicular to the stand that you'd clamp it on in that bad boy of a clamp.

my gear is in telluride so i can't take any photo's, until after blues and brews, and, i doubt you can wait that long.  so, try to picture this:
- clamp attached to surface with threads facing stage.
- vert bar screwed on with top facing stage.
- tubes oriented with threads of both at middle.
- shockmounts attached, mic placed forward on back mount,  
  back on forward mount, caps equal distance from stage
angle them any way you want

jr

what if ya have the shure vert bar???

bean, that is the vert bar.  more tubes?

jr

just cant picture it...i dunno, im sure it werks, but cannot picture it.... :Pi also have the sambra mounts

bean

i'll photo next week

jr

thanks john, thatd be GREAT

bean

[greenone]

Definitely, thanks, John! I'm not in a rush - most of the places I'm taping this month are places that are known to be taper-friendly (and places where I'll likely be one of only a few tapers). This is mostly a "what if" for when I hit non-stand-friendly places...

And thanks to Tim for the info on Rowis not being the best for rails...looks like I'll be a superclampin' fool but we'll see.

--Dave