Metal springs for mic shockmount

[GarthElliot]

Dear Forum

I'm planning a shockmount and is investigating the use of metal springs (which I saw in an old movie) instead of the usual elastic materials. I do suspect that metal springs will suffer from some kind of mechanical resonance and/or the transfer of vibration. Does anyone have any experience in this regard?

Regards,
Garth

 

[Sredna]

Microtech Gefell uses a spring in one of their capsules and uses a string of glue across the windings.
Sennheisser MD441 has an internal shockmount consisting of a double copper spiral filled with
a kind of silicon paste.

Try heat-shrink tubing on the spring, should damp it a bit...

 

[GarthElliot]

Thank you very much Srenda for a very informative reply.

 

[Rob Flinn]

why not just insert a strip of foam rubber in the spring.  That's what akg do with the shockmounts for the spring tanks in their reverb units

 

[Kamel]

Hi all

check this site (english version) Osix shockmount use spring metal and it's really efficient

http://www.cinela.fr/suspensions.php?PHPSESSID=2a67440722e46afa9343f8158d1aa15b