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Can anyone identify this mic isolation mount?

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Brian Bowers

http://forums.voice123.com/forum/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/don_lafontaine_799784c_140.jpg

I'm constantly hunting for the ideal pop filter, isolation mount combo, for my Audio Technica AT-2035 microphones, which are being used in our radio broadcast studios. I have been using this particular mic when replacing older Shure SM7B's and RE20's, that need rebuilding, or replacing. I really like this mic a lot. I just haven't yet found the perfect pop filter combo for it, to control P popping, so I continue to experiment (when I get a chance, I will soon post a picture of what I have come up with so far). The Audio Technica provided isolation mount for this particular mic is fantastic, but I'm looking for other combos that permit typical radio broadcast up close miking techniques, without allowing P popping, but also not taking away too much of the upper high end frequency response of the mic itself. IMO, the big foam filter, that AT recommends for this mic, provides too much coloration, in the upper high end. I don't like to use the 80 hz rolloff filter either. I'm guess whichever isolation mount that Don LaFontaine (RIP) is using in that picture, possibly only comes with the pictured mic.
 
It looks like one of the older Neumann mounts with pop filter. That particular model probably not available anymore, but Neumann still makes a form of them that fits their mics.
 
I did a brief check on the Neumann website, and didn't come up with anything that resembles the one I provided a link for, but I will double check when I have more time. The one thing I find appealing about the one Don is using, is that there is no gooseneck holding the popper stopper. If you look closely, the filter is attached right to the shockmount. Even though the nylon type popper stoppers are very effective at preventing P popping, when mounted on goosenecks, they always have to be repositioned in a radio studio (unlike a recording studio). That is always a pain in a broadcast environment.
 
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