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tourtelot
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That's one of the things I find attractive about the tubes that Voltronic recommended. No need for any foam since the tubes lock down tight on each end of the mics. No rattle. I think that if I needed extra protection, I'd just throw the tubes in a Shure pouch.
From years of my mics riding around in a sound-cart drawer in tubes in the back of a camera truck, I found that they were pretty darned impervious to damage. Yeah, dropping a Schoeps on a concrete floor was a problem. Having one hit by a swinging broadsword was a problem (true story). Living in a PCV tube? All good. Keeps out the dirt, provides shelter. That's it and it's fine.
My Schoeps tend to live in their "Schoeps" wooden boxes, and have for a while. My DPA "sets" with clips, pop screens, grids, etc. tend to live in their "DPA" boxes. My 4015s came in a, for a pair of pencil mics, giant Pelican case. No need for that. Two Voltronic tubes and a Shure pouch and Bob was my uncle. Two KM100s in a large wooden box? Nope. Two Voltronics tubes and a Shure pouch. Yeah!
Anyway . . . .
D.
Yeah, I think there is tendency to think that mics are more fragile than they are, simply because they cost so much money.
For 35 years I've only ever carried mine to and from locations in pairs in heavy fabric drawstring bank bags, and have never had a mic go noisy or malfunction due to how it was transported. Dropping on a hard floor, getting wet, or extreme heat, a different story. Or exposing them to unknown solvents from glues, untested foams, etc.
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