Is it necessary to have shockmounts for my microphones?
Mic stands – like anything else made of steel – will pick up vibrations from the floor and transmit them to whatever is sitting on the top. If that’s a mic in a hard mount, then it goes into the mic body and something of it will register. The vibrations that tend to pass that way seem to be low frequencies – like someone walking across the stage, or traffic outside the window. A low pass filter deals with a lot of it, but not all. If you isolate the mic form any hard connections, as with a [shockmount], or by sitting the thing on a feather pillow, you interrupt that line of transmissions and the noise doesn’t get into the signal. – Treeline I never use a shockmount, and I’ve never had any problems. Ever. If you have $40-$50 to blow on a shockmount, feel free, but for my money, I’d put that $40-$50 in better cabling. I guess if you’re recording people who insist on stomping on the ground while they’re singing, it may be worthwhile. Otherwise, I wouldn’t worry about it. – cominginsecond
