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Does anyone make a LARGE foam windscreen that can be used with an SM58? I'm really tired of people getting too close to
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:21:45 -0400, mcp6453 wrote:
Does anyone make a LARGE foam windscreen that can be used with an SM58? I'm really tired of people getting too close to the mic. Alternatively, has anyone invented a force field that will send a deadly charge to anyone whose lips try to penetrate it? Just tape a long sharp spike to the mic. d |
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mcp6453 wrote: Does anyone make a LARGE foam windscreen that can be used with an SM58? I'm really tired of people getting too close to the mic. Alternatively, has anyone invented a force field that will send a deadly charge to anyone whose lips try to penetrate it? Always thought it odd that a mic specifically designed to be 'swallowed' pops with the supplied windshield. -- *Microsoft broke Volkswagen's record: They only made 21.4 million bugs. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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mcp6453 wrote:
Does anyone make a LARGE foam windscreen that can be used with an SM58? I'm really tired of people getting too close to the mic. Alternatively, has anyone invented a force field that will send a deadly charge to anyone whose lips try to penetrate it? Put two mics on the stand, one slightly further forwards than the other. Use the back one and turn the front one off. (I've done it when one particularly loud performer overloaded an electret mic at a noisy. venue, it worked very well and the performer wasn't aware of what I had done.) An alternative is to make your own windshield from green nylon scouring pads and the strong organic-solvent type of latex glue. Use a broom handle or any expendable object the same size as the mic and wrap a pad around it to form a cylinder or tube. Cut the pad to size so that, when the two edges are glued together to form a butt joint, it is an easy fit over the head of the mic. Hold it in place with elastic bands until the glue has set. Wrap another pad around the first, but projecting forward by the thickness of one pad so as to give a hollow in the top of the cylinder. Rotate it so the joint is on the opposite side from the previous one, cut to size and glue. (You can also glue the top and bottom edges of the two cylinders together, but try not to block too many of the other pores with glue.) Cut two circles from a third pad; a smaller one to fit into the hollow and a larger one to fit over the top. Glue them into place, trying not to block too many pores. Finally trim the whole thing to a pleasant shape with scissors or mount it on a short length of broom handle in a lathe and sculpt it with an angle grinder. For greater effect you could try putting a layer of cloth between the two cylinders and across the top between the discs, but you would have to experiment to find out how much this affected the sound quality. -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk |
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Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
mcp6453 wrote: Does anyone make a LARGE foam windscreen that can be used with an SM58? I'm really tired of people getting too close to the mic. Alternatively, has anyone invented a force field that will send a deadly charge to anyone whose lips try to penetrate it? Put two mics on the stand, one slightly further forwards than the other. Use the back one and turn the front one off. (I've done it when one particularly loud performer overloaded an electret mic at a noisy. venue, it worked very well and the performer wasn't aware of what I had done.) That IS a good trick. That said, there is a company called Olsen or Olson, I forget which, which makes excellent large windscreens for very little money. They are 75% of a Rycote for 5% of the cost. They make some six-inch balls that fit the Schoeps mikes, and I seem to recall they make a similar one that will fit an SM-57. If they don't, a few minutes with a hot knife would enlarge the hole to fit the SM-57. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On 9/13/2014 8:04 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
That said, there is a company called Olsen or Olson, I forget which, which makes excellent large windscreens for very little money. They are 75% of a Rycote for 5% of the cost. They make some six-inch balls that fit the Schoeps mikes, and I seem to recall they make a similar one that will fit an SM-57. If they don't, a few minutes with a hot knife would enlarge the hole to fit the SM-57. I wish you could remember where you saw the six inchers. I can't find them, and that sounds like what I want if I can't get a lethal force field. The two-mic trick will not work for this application for a number of reasons, but it is a good trick. A Rode Procaster is almost impossible to pop, but it's USB only, and it sounds terrible. |
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On 9/13/2014 8:09 PM, mcp6453 wrote:
On 9/13/2014 8:04 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote: That said, there is a company called Olsen or Olson, I forget which, which makes excellent large windscreens for very little money. They are 75% of a Rycote for 5% of the cost. They make some six-inch balls that fit the Schoeps mikes, and I seem to recall they make a similar one that will fit an SM-57. If they don't, a few minutes with a hot knife would enlarge the hole to fit the SM-57. I wish you could remember where you saw the six inchers. I can't find them, and that sounds like what I want if I can't get a lethal force field. The two-mic trick will not work for this application for a number of reasons, but it is a good trick. A Rode Procaster is almost impossible to pop, but it's USB only, and it sounds terrible. Make that Rode Podcaster. The Procaster's not so bad, but it's quite dark. |
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On 9/13/2014 8:09 PM, mcp6453 wrote:
I wish you could remember where you saw the six inchers. I can't find them, and that sounds like what I want if I can't get a lethal force field. The Olsen wind screens that Scott is referring to is now WindTech http://www.windtech.tv/WindTech_Windcreens_Home_Pa.php I don't see any 6" diameter wind screens, but they have a "high wind" series that's greater than 3" in diameter. One of those might work. Or tape a sharp pencil to the mic. -- For a good time, visit http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com |
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On 12-09-2014 20:21, mcp6453 wrote:
Does anyone make a LARGE foam windscreen that can be used with an SM58? Yes, standard MI store product. I think thomann.de has them online. I'm really tired of people getting too close to the mic. Alternatively, has anyone invented a force field that will send a deadly charge to anyone whose lips try to penetrate it? No sane musician touches the mic with the lips. Kind regards Peter Larsen |
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On 9/13/2014 9:59 PM, Peter Larsen wrote:
No sane musician touches the mic with the lips. Lack of sanity never stopped some people from making music, at least not until they kiss a "hot" mic in a system with improper grounding and get electrocuted. -- For a good time, visit http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com |
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mcp6453 wrote:
On 9/13/2014 8:04 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote: That said, there is a company called Olsen or Olson, I forget which, which makes excellent large windscreens for very little money. They are 75% of a Rycote for 5% of the cost. They make some six-inch balls that fit the Schoeps mikes, and I seem to recall they make a similar one that will fit an SM-57. If they don't, a few minutes with a hot knife would enlarge the hole to fit the SM-57. I wish you could remember where you saw the six inchers. I can't find them, and that sounds like what I want if I can't get a lethal force field. http://www.olsenaudio.com --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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