What creative solutions have you used to support a mic when you ran out of
stands?

Not that it ever happens, of course.

What creative solutions have you used to support a mic when you ran out of
stands?
Not that it ever happens, of course.

Of course it never happens, but when some idiot on my one-man crew forgot the
mic stand, it has been solved by pressing a floor lamp into service, & I
believe, a hat rack on one occasion. Gaffer tape makes it all work.


Scott Fraser

In article 1 writes:

What creative solutions have you used to support a mic when you ran out of
stands?

Get out the roll of gaffer tape.

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Gaffa tape and guitar stands have always worked for me
"Carey Carlan" wrote in message
. 201...
What creative solutions have you used to support a mic when you ran out of
stands?

Not that it ever happens, of course.

Bean bag. A gym sock stuffed with dried beans, knotted, will do, provided
there are no holes in the sock.

Peace,
Paul

In article writes:

Bean bag. A gym sock stuffed with dried beans, knotted, will do, provided
there are no holes in the sock.

That lets me out. All of my socks have holes in them, and all the
holes are at least as big as a bean. When the holds get larger than
two toes or a whole heel, the sock goes into the rag box.


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Carey Carlan wrote:

What creative solutions have you used to support a mic when you ran out of
stands?

Not that it ever happens, of course.

Yeah, right.

Out comes the old standby, gaffers tape and then I go looking
for things about the right height. ONe time I used a desk lamp and
set that on top of the piano. ( put in a rubber pad on that one. )
I've used folding chairs for instrument mics, freeing up the real mic
stand for the vocal. One time I almost ended up with a tripod
made up from broom handles, but the runner made it back with
the stands in time.

--Dale

Dale Farmer wrote in
:

Out comes the old standby, gaffers tape and then I go looking
for things about the right height. ONe time I used a desk lamp and
set that on top of the piano. ( put in a rubber pad on that one. )
I've used folding chairs for instrument mics, freeing up the real mic
stand for the vocal. One time I almost ended up with a tripod
made up from broom handles, but the runner made it back with
the stands in time.

Now that's creative. Where in the world did you find three brooms in a
musician's space?

Carey Carlan wrote in message .201...
What creative solutions have you used to support a mic when you ran out of
stands?

Not that it ever happens, of course.

Atlas makes a clamp designed to mount (with a large thumb-screw)
on the lower part of a mic stand. I always carry a BUNCH of them.
They also fit on most drum/cymbal stands allowing the elimination
of standard mic stands from around the drum kit. Really helps clean
up the stage. Can usually find a way to use them on overhead if needed.
Very versatile and cheap as well as durable (cast iron).

'RedDog' Steve

Carey Carlan wrote:

Dale Farmer wrote:

Out comes the old standby, gaffers tape and then I go looking
for things about the right height. ONe time I used a desk lamp and
set that on top of the piano. ( put in a rubber pad on that one. )
I've used folding chairs for instrument mics, freeing up the real mic
stand for the vocal. One time I almost ended up with a tripod
made up from broom handles, but the runner made it back with
the stands in time.

Now that's creative. Where in the world did you find three brooms in a
musician's space?

Three of his ex old ladies left their other cars at his house.

--
ha

RD Jones wrote:

Carey Carlan wrote...

What creative solutions have you used to support a mic when you ran out of
stands?

Not that it ever happens, of course.

Atlas makes a clamp designed to mount (with a large thumb-screw)
on the lower part of a mic stand. I always carry a BUNCH of them.
They also fit on most drum/cymbal stands allowing the elimination
of standard mic stands from around the drum kit. Really helps clean
up the stage. Can usually find a way to use them on overhead if needed.
Very versatile and cheap as well as durable (cast iron).

The CO1-B. I use them regularly to put the acoustic guitar or mandolin
mic on the same stand with the vocal mic and irregularly for lots of
other situations. Tidy.

--
ha

Carey Carlan wrote:

Dale Farmer wrote in
:

Out comes the old standby, gaffers tape and then I go looking
for things about the right height. ONe time I used a desk lamp and
set that on top of the piano. ( put in a rubber pad on that one. )
I've used folding chairs for instrument mics, freeing up the real mic
stand for the vocal. One time I almost ended up with a tripod
made up from broom handles, but the runner made it back with
the stands in time.

Now that's creative. Where in the world did you find three brooms in a
musician's space?

It was the plaza in front of the city hall for a folk festival. There
was a
janitor's closet.

--Dale

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On 2004-03-02 (hankalrich) said:
RD Jones wrote:
Atlas makes a clamp designed to mount (with a large thumb-screw)
on the lower part of a mic stand. I always carry a BUNCH of them.
They also fit on most drum/cymbal stands allowing the elimination
of standard mic stands from around the drum kit. Really helps
clean up the stage. Can usually find a way to use them on
overhead if needed. Very versatile and cheap as well as durable
(cast iron). The CO1-B. I use them regularly to put the acoustic
guitar or mandolin mic on the same stand with the vocal mic and
irregularly for lots of other situations. Tidy.
YEs they are. I"ve got four of 'em around here and wouldn't mind
carrying a couple more.

I've clamped one to a guitarist's instrument stand to position the mic
for his amp. USed them on cymbal stands to tidy up the appearnce of a
drum kit, all sorts of uses for those little guys. I had more than
the four I have now but they kind of grew legs.




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