Rycote

For some live recordings I’m doing later this year I will have to place the mic on the stage front and I need to ensure that vibrations up to the mic are minimised...

Rycote's innovative Cyclone wind shielding device has been joined by a range of Stereo Cyclones. We test the MS4 kit with a Mid‑Sides stereo array of Sennheiser MKH30/40 microphones.

I would just like to ask if it’s important to use shockmounts on my microphones and how effective they are?

Decent shockmounts can actually improve the sound you get from your mics, but they can be expensive and not always durable. Rycote aim to solve both problems with their new designs.

Hugh Robjohns checks out a mic kit from Rycote designed to accompany the USM (reviewed in SOS in March 2010) and USM-L microphones.

Rycote's resilient plastic lyre suspension system quickly established itself as a 'better mousetrap' microphone...