Rycote Softie

coala or k-tek( thesecend one you will need extention bar)
maybe not so much cheap , but defenetly better then donate money to robbing barrons
 
George Jex said:
Does anyone know which size rycote softie will fit the oktava mk12? I checked evsonline.com and they have several different sizes.
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You cannot use a softie with the mk12 due to the special shape of the Oktava. Use a Rycote Baby Ball Gag instead.
 
Measure the diameter of the capsule, if it is more than 22mm then the softies would not fit. If you find a short softie with big enough hole you could use that, but also you would have to wrap gaffer tape to the body of the mic to make it of even thickness. Better to use BBG.
 
The Oktava MK12 capsule has a diameter of 24mm. Go for the BBG, it's only 20$ difference ($139 instead of $110 for a softie) . Add the windjammmer later if you can't afford it.
 
Oleg 2 said:
let say i dont like monopolies :-)
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I don't either, but Rycote is no white fly in the video and broadcast industry.

Someone may be amazed to find out that Anton Bauer, ALC, ASG, Avenger, AutoScript, Bogen Imaging, Bexel, Brake, Brilliant Stages, ClearCom, Gitzo, IFF, Kata, Litec, Manfrotto, O'Connor, Petrol, Sachtler, Vinten, Vinten Radamec, Tomcat are owned by the same financial group (Vinten plc).

This is how the globalized market works.


Lutnik
 
I understand the resentment against Rycote because of the lightwave thing... it was looking like lightwave was going to bring a lowcost version of the BBG to the masses and yeah, Rycote cut the legs off that project.

Fortunately Manfred Klemme has sort of picked up where Lightwave ended (to some extent)... so I have my fingers crossed that his products will eventually become the obvious choice.

I have mixed feelings about the foam ends on the k-tek blimps... after seeing so many blimps "poked in" on the ends this just might be the better alternative though.

You can use one of the short softies on the Oktava... oddly enough Rycote says that a BBG will NOT work with an Oktava... which tells me that they aren't too close to the ground on these issues. I'm not sure if they say the same thing about the softies... but I talked to a guy at Coffey that uses small softies on his Oktavas.

Still... I gotta' agree that if you're going to go that far you may as well get the BBG... because at that point you're 95% of the way to the effectiveness of a full blimp... whereas a softie is probably only about 60% of the way to a full blimp.
 
That thread is excellent reading... and I agree for about 95% of it... I've wanted to do a DIY wind system for a long time... I've divulged the sources that I've found through a lot of searching... and just in case... I'll tell everybody again.

The open-celled "foam" that is inside a softie... to mimic a dead airspace... is exactly like the filter media in any small fish pond. That media is probably not called open-celled foam... but you can clearly see, feel, and "hear" that it is the same thing. It also comes in all shapes and sizes... although I've yet to find it in a sphere... I have found it in solid cylinders that could be shaped down to a half-sphere.

The other material... the plastic mesh screen, is also available through the filter market... and you can find it directly by searching plastic mesh or screen... but looking for filter parts is the fastest way to find these materials.

The tube shape could easily be formed even without heat, by simply rolling the material... but if you choose another route then consider using a heatgun and forming the plastic mesh around a metal tube that's about 3" in diameter.

The challenge is in the connections. I've considered trying a plastic jar to create these... by using only the threaded section of the jar and lid and discarding everything else... something as simple as that would handle the job perfectly... if only we could make it LOOK good.

The one point that somebody raised in that thread that bugs me is this... why does sennheiser also make their prices for blimps so high? I guess the obvious answer is because they can... and they probably don't care too much about this facet of their business... but still... I do wonder why they wouldn't consider making them enough less to get us all using theirs instead?
 
---"So Mr. WOOLF - scroll back to your hole and start thinking what you can do
to make your product being " loved " again by some who don't use it anymore
from the reasons I pointed above..."

:laugh:

A nice l'il gem indeed.

Dude, you should charge an admission fee for a quote like that.
 
Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question but what do you folks do if your filming outside in wind and your doing camera and sound.

I am finding by using the on camera mic holder on the dvx (if you put rycote on a me66/ shotgun) its so long it ends up in the camera frame.

Is the only answer if you want to use a softie on a shotgun to use a camera support (e.g spiderbrace) and clamp a mic holder onto that so it movces out of frame?

thanks
 
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