Boom Pole?
 

What would you recommend for a cheap boom pole? It'll be holding an AT-55.

A carbon-fiber painting extension tube is cheap. PVC is cheaper still.

Cheap usually means heavy. If you're not the one holding the boom, well, someone has to hold it.


Regards,

Ty Ford

PVC has a lot of flex (aka bounce). The painter poles, when I checked, were way to heavy and too long even collapsed to fit in a car. I ended up going with a lighbulb changing pole. It is light to hold and colapses down to something around 6' with a max of 11'. There is some slight flex when it is fully extended, but not a lot.

I use it with an AT897 (11") with foam wind shield in a shockmount and with an AT835b (14").

A bamboo fishing pole would be light and cheap. And it could be called the ....



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