new gizmo ideia!!!!

[wishtheend]

Richard Z from Rammstein has this exact thing

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/inte..._emigrate_latest_project_saved_rammstein.html

Ultimate-Guitar.Com: Are you someone who enjoys experimenting with new equipment?

Richard Z: Completely. I'm one of those guys who loves to try new things out. I try out also preamps, and I think I tried out every preamp on this planet out. I definitely like new sounds. It takes a lot of time. One of the big issues I have is the guitar that you run up to the cabinet to your mic. What you have to do is get the sweet spot. You have to move the guitar to the microphone sometimes just half an inch. So for weeks, we would have to move it left, then right. I was so tired of going up and down! If you go up in sound, it can change all that you're doing. I can't just run around, up and down up and down.

I was looking for something like a mic stand that is basically controlled with a joystick. Nobody had it, so I went to a friend of mine in Berlin and explained my problem. He said, "I know someone that can sell this to you." We both basically built a guitar mic stand that, from a control room, you can move the microphone stand up and down. You can have it different angles on the microphone. I can basically save 15 presets on my control. The other thing is the microphone also works as an equalizer. So that was a big, big help.

 

[egan.]

Yeah, I was going to say that I've seen this done on various levels. I think the issue as far as mass production goes is that demand would be low and cost would be high.

 

[Skinny Viking]

...and work the phrase "Intern Slayer" into the marketing materials.

my thoughts exactly

but then again, its not as much fun to kick around and bully a small machine ... no feelings to hurt

 

[wishtheend]

Yeah, I was going to say that I've seen this done on various levels. I think the issue as far as mass production goes is that demand would be low and cost would be high.

Plus, I don't think any manufacturer would want to be on the receiving end of a phone call where a defective unit shoved a 57 right through the cone of someones cabinet hahaha

 

[Erkan]

Plus, I don't think any manufacturer would want to be on the receiving end of a phone call where a defective unit shoved a 57 right through the cone of someones cabinet hahaha

Hahaha now that would be fun!

The 57 could probably go through the cab's wood and still survive... goddamn tank microphones

 

[covil]

ok, i´ve registered the idea. So now its patent pending!! Hope there´s nothing like this so that the 200eur aren´t in vain!!!!

 

[iekobrid]

Plus, I don't think any manufacturer would want to be on the receiving end of a phone call where a defective unit shoved a 57 right through the cone of someones cabinet hahaha

Or at the end of each session it starts freaking out, "No disassemble TeaBoy Five! No disassemble!"

 

[jex]

Id love to have one of these!
I remember reading an article that mentioned IBM using a motorized boom stand to move a mic around the room for reverberation time tests. ...but it still isnt mass produced.