Rycote Softie Performance Questions, issues

[mcnys]

Wind can also enter around the connector, switches, ect... and often ignored as the source.

THIS!!! some tape around the xlr connection could help alot.

 

[John Willett]

Softies work great. If the wind is too much for a softie, find another way to help (taking advantage of natural surroundings, or even use yourself or your subject to block the full force of the wind... like having their back to the wind and booming from below for example).

If you can't compensate and the softie can't cut it... you need the full blimp and fur (as Paul stated).

The new Super-Softie? I'm not a fan... that one is between an ordinary mic foam and a regular softie.

Bare mic < stock foam < super softie < bare blimp < furry softie < blimp w/ fur.

The Super-Softie is quite a bit better than the original Softie - especially the sound quality. It's much clearer and less muffled.

I have to agree with Mattin about the blimp + fur. To me a blimp is a MUST. I have completely ruined shoots by just using a softie/dead cat and have a lot of regrets about it. Spend the extra $ on a blimp setup and you will be so glad you did. I would even add to his list at the end < blimp w/ fur AND high wind cover...

I wouldn't get a blimp with fur nowadays - I would get the new Rycote Cyclone - much better and with no muffling of the HF like you get with a WIndjammer. The standard Cyclone is better than a windshield with Windjammer - and if the wind is so bad that it even gets through that, there is also a Windjammer for the Cyclone.