Ugh, kerbled, but I'm sure we discussed this already. Anyway...

This is the least enjoyable thing to throw money at, but my $29 OnStage boom stand does not cut it for drum overheads. I don't need to extend a rare German mic 20 feet out into an orchestra, but I need to hang a couple SDCs 2-3 feet over a drum kit, in my home-office-slash-studio, and generally set it and forget it.

What's out there that can do this adequately, and not be some massive $500 chunk of iron?

I use these in my home setup: http://herculesstands.com/us/products/m ... om/ms533b/ I think they're around $80 a piece. Can probably find them on sale or get a discount code, though, depending on where you shop.

They work great and I really like the "hideaway" feature for the boom. Granted my current overhead mics are two Little Blondie SDCs, which are tiny.

Slight upgrade option incase your ever need to support more weight, but still relatively affordable for a nice stand:
Atlas Sound MS20 (https://www.guitarcenter.com/Atlas-Soun ... 8084839.gc) and their extendable, weighted boom (https://www.guitarcenter.com/Atlas-Soun ... 8084800.gc).

I have one of the Atlas stands with the boom and it's great as well. Going to pick up another at some point.

The atlas looks nice and the circular weighted base has some economy with the footprint, which is nice. 200 for the stand and the boom is totally do-able. Thanks for the recommendation!

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K&M extra tall mic stand. It's weighted, can handle big old LDCs and ribbons. $130 isn't fun money for a stand, but it works well, and it's no Latch Lake.

I have a couple of the smaller iron base stands and I wanna go up a size from that. I think those bigger Atlas ones will work ok. A tripod situation kinda sticks out more than I want, but it’s not a deal breaker.

I took a quick look for that K&M stand but I don’t think I found the exact model.

twelvepoint wrote: Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:49 pm I have a couple of the smaller iron base stands and I wanna go up a size from that. I think those bigger Atlas ones will work ok. A tripod situation kinda sticks out more than I want, but it’s not a deal breaker.

I took a quick look for that K&M stand but I don’t think I found the exact model.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... tand-black

It looks normal, until you have it in front of you and pick it up. It stands taller and is quite a bit heavier than any typical stand. I get that tripods are sometimes annoying in a forest of drum hardware, but the best thing about a weighted stand is you can put the tripod legs wherever they fit best, without trying to make sure the boom extends directly over one of the legs so it won't fall down.

Ok I went with that K&M, and I’ll report back.

There’s definitely some middle ground here where I don’t need some crazy 6 foot overhang, but I don’t want to have some flimsy PoS that’s constantly threatening to tip over.

I considered hanging mics as well, but that seems like a pain to position if I need to make adjustments.

Yikes, you could've saved a few bucks putting a decent boom arm on a meathead/chooch iron base stand. I do this with drum overhead SDCs & set it & forget it like you and never have problems.

Good luck with that other one though.

not a stand, but I devised a kinda neato thing a couple of years ago. I have a beam in my basement that runs right over the Tom Mount on the kit in my basement. I mounted 4 of those little podium mic mounts into the beam and bought a couple of these little mini boom attachments. I ran xlr cables to each point and just left the cables ran, cables managed with Velcro that is also screwed into the beam. Now, I can put up a few overhead mics on the beam and not deal with mic stands for the overheads at all. It's all clean and the cables are already plugged into the snake. It's nice when you have very limited floor space.

https://www.amazon.com/Stage-TMO2B-Micr ... 74&sr=8-44

https://www.amazon.com/MSA9505-Posi-Lok ... 430&sr=8-5