OK, so I was just thrown a curve. As I said in my previous thread, a friend of mine offered me the Rycote S-Series 450 Windshield Kit because he wasn't using it anymore. Initially I was happy that I wouldn't have to buy a blimp system, but then I looked into it, and realized that it wouldn't fit the mic I am getting which is the super short AT875r. Although it was suggested that I might be able to rig something internally, I was somewhat deflated by the prospect. So today I wrote to him that sadly I probably won't be able to use his kit on account of the mic not fitting... and he wrote back that I'm welcome to use his AT8035 mic that he was using with that S-Series 450, but now he uses neither that mic nor the blimp! He was thinking of selling both as he never used them anymore, since he has other newer mics, but never got around to it.
Now that puts me into a dilemma. Sure, I can accept both, but there must have been a reason why he gave up on them - clearly the mic (and maybe the blimp) is quite obsolete. I don't want to turn down such a generous offer, but I wonder what to do. My first thought was, well, if it's really windy, I can use the AT8035 in the blimp and that way I have something for really bad conditions. But my second thought was - what if the AT8035 is so poor, that the newer mics completely outdistance it, including the cheap 897 I have my eye on, and I'll merely be shooting myself in the foot by using the 8035 at all?
What's your take? And is the AT8035 really not up to it for dialogue - I'd be using it only in really windy situations outside?
Now that puts me into a dilemma. Sure, I can accept both, but there must have been a reason why he gave up on them - clearly the mic (and maybe the blimp) is quite obsolete. I don't want to turn down such a generous offer, but I wonder what to do. My first thought was, well, if it's really windy, I can use the AT8035 in the blimp and that way I have something for really bad conditions. But my second thought was - what if the AT8035 is so poor, that the newer mics completely outdistance it, including the cheap 897 I have my eye on, and I'll merely be shooting myself in the foot by using the 8035 at all?
What's your take? And is the AT8035 really not up to it for dialogue - I'd be using it only in really windy situations outside?
- I saved him about $3K a month ago, when he thought his transmission was toast and the place he brought it to wanted $3K - I took him to my mechanic and $28 dollars later, his transmission was fine (it was not a transmission problem, heh, exactly as I suspected, because it happened to me once). Anyhow, I just want this to be good enough for use when it's very windy outside - that way I can stick the 8035 in the blimp - because I can't see where else I'd use it... if I wanted to use a shotgun outside, I'd just use the 875r. If you tell me that the 8035 is usable, then I'm fine with it, although as you say, experienced sound person only - sadly, not likely in my case, as a friend who is going to be doing sound has very little experience.
