How to Make Your Own Microphone Stand for Cheap

How to Make Your Own Microphone Stand for Cheap

Have a microphone and looking for a way to save a little money on a microphone stand?  Well, you’ve come to the right place – read this post on how to make your own microphone stand for cheap.

How to Make Your Own Microphone Stand for Cheap – Background

Many folks are getting more and more interested in starting their own podcast, youtube channel, or twitch stream as a way to interact with their web audience.  The core of these activities centers around having a good audio input.  For this to happen, you need a quality microphone, and it needs to be relatively close to your mouth.

Well, I recently purchased the Audio-Technica ATR2100 microphone (a great mic for the price btw) and ran into a bit of a problem.  It came with a free stand, but when I’m sitting at the computer it is still about 14 inches away from my mouth.  This is a problem because to get a good sound level I have to turn up the microphone gain very high.  This causes distortion and generally bad sounds audio.  I needed a microphone stand!

How to Make Your Own Microphone Stand for Cheap – Alternatives

I had a feeling that the free microphone stand was too short, but I wanted to test it out before spending any money.  Alternative desk-mounted microphone stands were anywhere from $30 – $99 (cheaper one and top of the line ) !  Well the cheaper one was a bust, so I got ready to fork over some cash for a the cheaper version.  Because I’m a money saving lover, I began to wonder if I could somehow make my own microphone stand for cheap.

How to Make Your Own Microphone Stand for Cheap – DIY

I googled “how to make your own microphone stand for cheap” and found several different write-ups and videos on how to make your own microphone stand from a simple wire coat hanger.  I tried this method out and it worked like a charm!  Check the youtube video that I made below to see how easy it is to make your own microphone stand for cheap!  Because I plan to have the microphone and microphone stand out of the view of the video, there really isn’t any reason why I cannot use this cheap microphone stand for all of my recording needs.

How to Make Your Own Microphone Stand for Cheap – Final Thoughts

As you can see from the video, making your own microphone stand from a wire coat hanger doesn’t give you the prettiest thing in the world, but it’s pretty functional and gets the basic job done.  If the youtube videos really start to pay off for me, then I’ll possibly looking into getting something more professional.  But, for now I’m glad I googled how to make your own microphone stand for cheap and learned of this great method!

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