All good studio microphones should be placed in shock mounts for recording. A shock mount is useful for isolating your microphone from vibrations that can travel up the mic stand and later appear as various strange noises or low end rumbling on your tracks.
Shock mounts keep vibrations from making their way up the mic stand, transferring into the microphone and showing up on your tracks as unwelcome noise. Sometimes vibration related noise that's unnoticeable while you're tracking shows up when you master, then suddenly it's "What's up with the thumps and noise in the bottom end? "Oops - should've used a shock..."
The AT84 shock-mount is a cost effective alternative to the RSM-1. It is the suggested shock mount for Royer R-121s and SF-1s and it also provides good shock protection for our R-122 and SF-12 microphones, when the mics are positioned vertically.
Royer's AT-84 shock mount is excellent for the R-121 and SF-1 mics. But the longer bodied SF-12 stereo ribbon and R-122 active ribbon™ mics have a tendency to "lean" a little with the AT-84, especially when you position the mics horizontally (as with drum overheads). The RSM-1 provides a more secure hold, and its special orientation slots make pulling a mic out of the shock from the cable end impossible. The orientation slots are provided to let you position the mics forward or backwards (for tracking on the back side of R-121 and R-122 mics).
While the AT-84 is specially made to fit Royer microphones, it will also work with any 1-inch diameter mic.
* Microphone not included!
Minimum Microphone Compatability :
Diameter 0.66 (16.8 mm)
Microphones Accepted :
Cylindrical or tapered within the limits above.
Clamping System :
Spring-loaded "clothespin"
Suspension System
Elastic shock cord.
Swivel Rotation 180 degrees
Attenuation 8 dB to 10 dB broadband (depends on the microphone response, construction and mass.)
