Microphone boom stand as DIY C-stand?

Moz

Moz

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I found one of these things on my travels and it seems like it could carry a low weight light, flag or reflector.

What I am wondering is how to attach the screw mount for the microphone to.. anything really?

I am wondering if there are different kind of microphone stand heads and can be adapted for holding flags, etc. I have seen clamps but they are designed to hold microphones have have a huge dead space in the middle.

Besides that these are great for shots on the sticks when there is no boom operator and the actors are not really moving. You can get these things in pretty big sizes and if you are creative, get them pretty close to the action. (but this is the wrong forum for that)

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cheers.
 
I have a stand very similar. I've used it for two things, a shotgun mic holder and a china lantern holder. China lantern holder is easy as you can just tie some string on the end of the stand and make it work. Holding a mic is more challenging as mic stands have a different screw than boom poles do. I ended up buying a nut, bolt, and some expoxy to create a bolt I could screw a shockmount to (which holds my shotgun mic).

Or can try one of these (never used one personally and not sure how they'd work clamping onto a pole)
http://www.amazon.com/Lowel-Large-S...6?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1199516012&sr=8-6

Good luck.
 
I would doubt that clamp would hold on very well to the pool. I have used clamp lights on the boom before with little success. Though if the pole is hollow, I am sure you could slip the mounting piece off that clamp into it with some JB weld and then it would be compatible with anything you'd put on a C-stand.

The china ball idea sounds good though. I could even use that microphone clamp I mentioned with it.
 
Manfrotto 3398b... check that out. For the price, weight, height, and booming functions... I'd be surprised if you can beat it.
 
I'm using one of those microphone stands for gelling worklights. i just extend it and clanp the gell, so at least i don't burn the gell with the extreme heat of the worklight.
 
That looks like a really nice find Horse! For ALL that... at that price... that's pretty hard to beat.

I've got a Matthews about that size... $75... then reflector holder... about $55... then the reflector itself... $35...

Uh... yeah... I think I'll try one of those next... I even wanted my most recent reflector to be round instead of rounded square... and once I got home I found out that it wasn't round.

That link will sell at least one of those kits ;-)
 
Yeah, it's a pretty sweet deal. Like I said, don't expect anything bomb proof, but I've used mine as a reflector/cookie holder and an audio boom stand for quite awhile now. It hasn't failed me yet.
 
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