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Best Made & Good Value For Money Microphone Stands ?


Nostromo
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Happy New Year Everyone,

Wishing you all lots of sucessful gigs in 2013 !

I'm gonna take advantage of the new year sale season and buy a couple of new Microphone Stands for my band. Need normal tripod 3 folding feet type stage stands - preferably with 2 stage telescopic boom.

We've been using some cheap Studio Spares ones I bought a couple of years ago, but a couple of them have more or less fell to bits where the fittings are crimped to the tubes . . . so was thinking maybe the replacements should be a bit better engineered than the very budget Studio Spares ones, which will now be cannibalised for spare bits for the rest !

Was looking at Beyerdynamic GST500's or K&M 25600's, I've used an old Beyer before, but found the boom clutch quite hard to tighten up on it, have no experiance with the K&M 25600 ? . . . . a mate of mine uses Quik Lok A504's which seem very substantial and quite well engineered but I cant seem to find those for sale anywhere in the UK ?

Anyway . . any experiance regarding what is the best mic stand you can buy for about £50 a pop would be very much appreciated. Just needs to be well engineered, probably metal rather then plastic I suspect, reliable, easy to use erganomically and easy to find on line ?

Cheers all and happy new year,

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[quote name='Nostromo' timestamp='1357051886' post='1916783']
Yes, they seem to do the Quik-Lok A-300 . . .but not the A-504 ? . . . guess there must be some difference between them . . though difficult to see it from the Quik-Lok web site ?[/quote]

Ha yes, I removed the post when I realised there was no A504 in the range. :)

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No problem,

Seems to me Mic Stands are a real hit and miss affair with regard to how well they are made, vfm etc, so hoping for some feedback from any members who can recommend any particular models as particularly good value.

Just spotted the Ultimate Support Tour-TT stand whilst looking on google . . . . anyone used these ? . . . bit above my £50 price point but again are they worth the extra in terms of build quality and ease of use ? . . any one used them ?

Cheers

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Were Reslo stands the old chrome ones with the cast tripod feet ? . . . I seem to remember them from a long time ago ? ?

Thanks for your thoughts but I'm hoping that somewhere out there in internet land, or better still from a local shop, I'd be able to order a couple of really well made reliable mic stands !

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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1357079096' post='1917345']
What about this one? :D

[url="http://www.themicstore.co.uk/mic-stands/se-electronics-large-professional-studio-mic-stand-07-325m.html"]http://www.themicsto...nd-07-325m.html[/url]
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Yea . . . thanks for that . . . . SE are a good firm . . . . but that stand is definitely a specialist studio job . . . that’s what SE are about after all . . . it's probably very versatile ergonomically . . . but probably not designed to be kicked around a club or a pub whilst setting up for the evening ! ! . . . my lot treat my PA gear dreadfully . . . . dump all the mic stands on the floor and then probably dump a PA cab on top of them so as to get through with their beloved backline amps etc . . . so I guess its "toughness" that I’m looking for first and foremost ?

The Studio Spares Mic Stands I've been using have been ok for what I paid for them . . . but they've taken some punishment over several years and due the abuse they get from my other band members who don’t take care of any of the PA stuff really . . . well . . . I do need "tougher" stands . . . or a new band ! . . ha !

Cheers . . .

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Yes, those are the Reslo stands and round here there's still loads of them still doing what they do best, hold mics in the air.

Why not get the rest of the band to buy their own mic stands? I don't know any musicians that don't own their own, or, we as a band buy mic stands for the band, micing drums etc, and when they break the band buy new ones. Might be worth a try.

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I've found that for "normal" live use Beyer and K&M stands to be exceptionally tough and good value for money. Plus IIRC you can get spare parts for all of the K&M range so repairs are fairly straight-forward.

Be thankful you don't have someone like Mr Venom in your band. If his mic stand lasts to the end of a gig it's a miracle. Sometimes they don't even make it to the end of the first song!

If the band are exceptionally tough on mic stands it might be worth looking at [url=http://www.rebelmicstands.com]Rebel Trading[/url]. I've been talking to them about getting a stand made for my band which they reckon will even withstand the abuse that Mr Venom will inflict on it.

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I use these Samson BL3s:

http://www.gak.co.uk/en/samson-bl3-boom-stand/44855?gclid=COCF34KxlrUCFefMtAod5AsAmQ

We`ve a range of different stands in each of the bands I`m in, but these ones seem the hardiest of the lot. And at under £25, a good deal too.

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[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1359765543' post='1960211']
I use these Samson BL3s:

[url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/samson-bl3-boom-stand/44855?gclid=COCF34KxlrUCFefMtAod5AsAmQ"]http://www.gak.co.uk...CFefMtAod5AsAmQ[/url]

We`ve a range of different stands in each of the bands I`m in, but these ones seem the hardiest of the lot. And at under £25, a good deal too.
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What are the threads like on those ? narrow ? (lots of threads per inch) or are the threads course (not many per inch) and robust ?
Many of the stands I've used over time always seem to strip the narrow threads or the socket the narrow threads go into - that's always been the failure point, the rest of the stand has been ok (with the exception of friction clutches). My personal stand has wide, course threads and has lasted for nearly two decades.

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[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1359627072' post='1957683']
:D :D :D

that must eat into the band takings...
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It's factored in to our gig fees. Also because the stands don't always fail in the same place, we collect the pieces after each gig and can normally make a new "Frankenstand" out of a few old ones.

Of course by now we've spent more on cheap stands than it would have cost to have a Rebel Trading one made that will stand up to the abuse he gives them.

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[quote name='essexbasscat' timestamp='1359808426' post='1960551']
What are the threads like on those ? narrow ? (lots of threads per inch) or are the threads course (not many per inch) and robust ?
Many of the stands I've used over time always seem to strip the narrow threads or the socket the narrow threads go into - that's always been the failure point, the rest of the stand has been ok (with the exception of friction clutches). My personal stand has wide, course threads and has lasted for nearly two decades.
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Well I keep it in the boot of my car, so it`s not something I`ve noticed, but out of all the stands I `ve used with my bands, these are the easiest to set-up, and so far, have been the most stable whn actually set up.

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