It ain’t much but it works 🤷♀️
I appreciate the confidence in this tiny pice of tape.
Stabilizing tape, most of the weight seems secured by the nuts
I had to look for a moment at the image again a few times because I didn’t see any nuts. Then I saw the … nuts. Lmao.
indeed that piece of tape has been lost to the trash, but without it gravity tilts the mic at the perfect angle for where I usually sit, so that’s a bonus.
nothing is as permanent as a makeshift solution.
Well, you certainly can’t call it ‘easy to carry’! :D
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haha, thanks 😅
This looks very functional. However, I would avoid pistachios while using it. Removing a few could throw everything off.
It may actually help with the balance, but I think you have that mic pointed the wrong way.
Looks to me like a condenser with an element parallel to the body, it’d be better if you talk directly into the side of the mesh not the front:
Condenser mics are just the overall technology used to capture sound. They don’t all have the same polar pattern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone#Polar_patterns).
A bit of digging suggests this is a Samson C01U, which has a supercardioid pattern centered on the bar, so it will pickup the largest spectrum pointed right at the source as OP has it, though it would also pickup on the sides fairly well.
Sorry, but this is just wrong. All mics of this type I know of are oriented towards the grill, not towards the bar, I don’t know where you got that info from.
Just to really make sure, you can check on this disassembly video (around the 6 minute mark) that the capsule is oriented towards the grill, and you’ll get the least pickup from the bar (which is the side).
Well, technically the least pickup is behind the bar and not straight, but you’ll get very muddy sound from the side anyways, since you lose most high frequencies.
Source: I’m an audio technician.
I looked up the user manual (https://samsontech.com/products/microphones/usb-microphones/c01upro/) which says to point the bar at the mouth when recording vocals for best sounds.
to achieve the fullest sound, the vocalist should aim the microphone center line towards their mouth.
Manuals aren’t infallible, though, or maybe I’m misunderstanding the wording. If you’re familiar with the internals, then I’ll take your word for it.
I don’t think the center line and top bar are the same thing. It’s probably just referring to the center of the front. Hypercardioid mics don’t perform well off-axis. The line after the quoted one is talking about plosives and how you can rotate the mic if they become an issue, assuming the diaphragm is pointing at your mouth.
