Don’t have a shotgun mic but you still need to get a little closer to your source?

Here’s a simple solution for low budget filmmakers or audio podcasters. This is a combo of my video double sound kit and my podcasting kit.

In the image:

  1. Zoom H2
  2. 20 foot 1/8 inch headphone cable
  3. Gitzo 3 section Fishpole mic boom
  4. Mounting screw for the mic boom

Click on the image and go to the flickr page to see a more detailed description of the parts.

mic pack

You’ll need the head phones for sure but that’s a given when recording audio. The nice thing about this mic boom is it has 2 standard mounting options included in the end where you normally mount the mic holder for the shotgun mic.

Just flip the mounting screw around and it should mount into any standard recording device you have that has that 3/8 screw mount on the bottom like the H2.

H2 on a stick

Here is the H2 mounted on the end of the Fishpole. As you can see you’ll need the head phone extension cable and headphones. But now you can extend the pole and get the H2 in over a crowd or close to the ground for some Foley work.

TIPS:

  1. Don’t forget the head phones
  2. Always make sure you press RECORD! ( With the Recorder so far away it will be easy to forget. It’s not like you’re wasting tape anymore.)