Rycote Mic Protector Case 20cm

Bought this to use with pencil mics (DPA400X, Sennheiser 8000 series) on the road. Sometimes I need to travel to rather rough places (outdoorsy stuff) to go recording. I've had the case for a few years now, and it is well built, but I notice I heardly ever use it. Mainly because I don't trust the allotted padding for the mics, and think it is too bulky.

The plastic tubes (and the aluminium (?) tube they are in) are well built and feel very sturdy. The small plastic tubes are a neat and efficient way to store pencil mics. I like the hexagonal tops to avoid stuff rolling away.

Inside the big tube there are 3 small tubes that have padding on one side, which would compress against the mic. Then at the bottom of the big tube there's some more padding. There is no padding at the side. The 3 tubes fit so tight that they don't really touch the padding on the bottom. So they only rest on the plastic of the tubes. I'm more worried about the lack of padding to the sides (hard alumunium wall). there you're mics aren't very well protected for falls and shocks in that direction.

The 3 tubes inside a tube also make for a lot of wasted space, which makes this a less than efficient way of packing the mics (though more efficient that their brand's boxies). It gets rather bulky for 3 mics.

I'd rather get a small peli (or knockof), order some cuto to size foam and use that for my microphones. Or a normal plastic box with my own padding (I use pipe isolation). Packs down very small and offers a lot of protection, at a fraction of the cost).

So in the end, I wouldn't recommend this.

Very sturdy case, padding at the bottom to protect your mic.
Comes with 3 soft-ish plastic tubes which are filled with pieces of foam. I am not 100% sure how to use these, I figured out if I take out the foam and use the foam on it's own to pad the mic from all sites it could be cumbersome to collect all pieces when taking out the mic. This might be great for others. I just removed one of the tubes and left the other two in there and the mic sits in there really snug. All in all very happy with the purchase, especially since one of the mics ordered did not even come with a pouch. I have the Shure 545 in there.

....der muss sie schützen.
Eigentlich nur auf der Suche nach den (ROSE)-Drehhülsen bin ich auf dieses Set gestoßen.
Alles superstabil,die drei mittgelieferten Hülsen sitzen stramm und fest,auch wegen der sechseckigen Enden.Die Bodenplatte ist massiver Kunststoff.Ich transportiere damit jetzt meine geliebten SCHOEPS-Mikrofone samt einer Auswahl an verschiedenen Kapseln.
Alles sehr aufgeräumt uns sicher (auch gegen Staub!) verpackt.
Ich würde dieses Produkt sofort wieder kaufen!