Folks,

I've been looking for good, reasonably priced shock mounts
lately, and want to share a few thoughts.

First, the elastic band (suspension) type shock mounts have
a shortcoming that hopefully you will never suffer from,
but may want to plan for anyhow.

It turns out that in all of the designs I've seen, only one
of the elastic bands is actually holding the weight.

The set up usually has a pair of bands, one above, and one
below. If you hang your mic upside down, which isn't unusual,
and the "wrong" band breaks, the only thing keeping your mic
off of the floor is the mic cable. If you have the mic mounted
upright, and the "wrong" band breaks, there may be nothing
keeping the mic off of the floor!

So, I suggest using a loosely set "zip tie"* to connect the
inner mount (the part connected to the mic) to the
outer mount (the part connected to the mic stand),
just in case.

* those nifty nylon fasteners that are used almost as
universally as duct tape

Second, one type of shock mount is sort of a "sleeve" which
grips the mic by squeezing the body tightly. If your mic
body is conical, or the mic is very heavy, and you hang it
upside down in one of those compression sleeve type shock
mounts, gravity is working mightily against your mic!

If you can find a shock mount that attaches to the base of
the mic, using a large nut, that is a much better solution,
for a conical, or heavy mic, hanging upside down.

HTH,
Emmit Sycamore

Last edited by EmmitSycamore; 03/03/11 08:30 PM.