River City Select

Austin Bazaar Yellow Brass Trumpet

Jun 3, 2011 Brass Instruments
Posted by Sincere Chambers

The Ringer is a habit designed shockmount for Blue’s finish line of spherical microphones; the ball, the 8-ball, the kickball, and snowball. The Ringer features a vintage-style suspension mount design to isolate the microphone body from low-frequency energy when mounted on a microphone stand. It accommodates nearly any microphone with a standard thread mount. The Ringer is likewise a true universal shockmount–if the microphone will fit through the loop, it may be mounted in The Ringer by virtue of it is distinguishable universal thread mount. Beyond just working with Blue-engineered microphones, The Ringer is a outstanding accessory for any microphone where you desire a high-quality, sharp-looking shockmount. Like all of Blue’s shockmounts and pop filters, the ringer is composed of solid brass and on an individual basis hand-built and soldered. Crafted with the same attention to detail that goes into Blue’s mics, these accessaries will last a lifetime. What’s in the Box Blue Microphones Ringer Shockmount

---

Most helpful client reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Beware!
By zaria
I love the snowball microphone. It does all that it is supposed to do. The Ringer is a sharp looking item which also does what it is supposed to do. The problem I have had with the Ringer is the thumb screw on the side. It is made of a soft metal and broke easily. All I need to make my Ringer work is a new thumb screw. I have REPEATEDLY emailed and explained the problem and requested a new thumb screw, which they have happily accorded to send me. But closely six months later, I still do not have the simple thumb screw and I still am unable to use the Ringer with my Snowball. Recently, I have necessitated another microphone and I thought I would get the Baby Blue Bottle condenser mic, but after the awful experience I have had with Blue, I won’t buy one. A company may have a great product but if they can’t deliver on basic client service, then they may not get my repeat business. I would not even be making this review if I had merely received a thumb screw so I could use the Ringer. Therefore, if you buy this product just be conscious that if you have even a little problem you will be on your own to solve it.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Blue’s Ringer Shockmount is Very Cool!
By Agent Blue
Blue’s [[ASIN: B000H18RYS Ringer Shockmount for Ball Microphones]] is all it’s cracked up to be. It is well-designed, well-constructed and does a fine occupation of isolating a microphone from extranious origins of noise. As suggested in Blue’s product literature, the shockmount may be used with other microphones in addition to Blue’s Ball, 8-Ball, Kick Ball and Snow Ball, for which it was designed. It even worked fine with an AKG C1000S, though it took a heap of careful fingerwork to get the AKG clip screwed down in the Ringer and it looked a little askew. Blue’s Ball microphones and the Ringer Shockmount are more spectacular than I’d imagined and look utterly cool together: retro and modern all at once. What a shame the shockmount was given a mediocre rating by a person who reviewed it without taking it out of the packaging (for lack of a mike stand, no less). At least he cited how well the 8-Ball worked. (There is a joke here, somewhere.) I wish I could make up for that grossly off base review by rating the Ringer Shockmount seven or eight, but five is the top rating available. I would suggest using a good quality stand with the Ringer; it might be top heavy paired with a great deal of of the cheap, flimsy mike stands presently on the market. Thoughtful counter-weighting using a solid boom will resolve most difficultnesses and facilitate originative mike placement possibilities. Note that these are studio and performance rather than desktop considerations. Although I find no reason to doubt their compatibility with the Ringer, I have no experience with the Snow Ball, Blue’s tripod stand, or for that matter, with podcasting. As far as the Ringer Shockmount, as with all Blue productions I’ve purchased to date, I’m very pleased and impressed!

5 of 5 humans found the following review helpful.
WOrks great for isolation, kind of Big though
By K. Giles
This is a fantastic Shock-mount. I purchased it to go with my Snowball, but it also works well with the blueball and any other mic with a mic clip that you need isolated.

She is kind of big, so on camera not as classy or stylish as I would like.

WHat else may I say. It’s a shock mount. LOL.

See all 19 client reviews…