Rycote News Archive

Visit us at NAMM 2012

Visit Rycote at NAMM 2012 and see the new USM-VB!

Date: 09/01/2012

Rick Young from Mac Video reviews Rycote gear!

Watch the video!

Date: 17/08/2011
Category: Product Reviews

Tape OP review the USM

Pubkished in Gear Reviews, Tape OP 84/65

Date: 08/08/2011
Category: Product Reviews

B&H review the Portable Recorder Audio Kit

Watch the video!

Date: 18/07/2011
Category: Product Reviews

Portable recorder audio kit wins Zoom Street Award in the US!

Read the review by Zoom Street

Date: 07/06/2011
Category: Product Reviews

Rycote InVision Studio Kits find universal favour at Yellow Shark

Cheltenham Studio Praises New Suspension/Pop Filter System

Date: 01/06/2011
Category: Case Studies

Stefano Pucello - The truth about the Lyre

Read the interview by Pro Sound News!

Date: 23/05/2011
Category: Industry News

Rycote videos now available with Polish subtitles!

Watch them here!

Date: 05/05/2011
Category:

Audio Technology review the Rycote USM

Read the review by Australian magazine Audio Technology!

Date: 12/04/2011
Category: Product Reviews

Chad Johnson reviews the Zoom H4N Audio Kit

Watch the review online!

Date: 04/04/2011
Category: Product Reviews

OakShed Media review the Portable Recorder Suspension and Audio Kit

Read the review by OakShed media

Date: 23/03/2011
Category: Product Reviews

Read the interview of Stefano Pucello, our Sales & Marketing Manager, by NZ Video News!

Stefano was in Auckland last month, to present Rycote products at Syntec's product evenings. Read the interview by NZ Video News!

Date: 14/03/2011
Category: Industry News

Matthew Share reviews the Rycote Lyre Modular Suspension system

Read the review by Matthew Share

Date: 21/02/2011
Category: Product Reviews

This year, at the Rycote booth, you will find…

Come and visit our stand, A86 - Hall 8

Date: 01/02/2011
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Rycote InVision USM:  uniwersalny uchwyt mikrofonowy

Review of the InVision USM from the Polish magazine Estrada & Studio

Date: 17/01/2011
Category: Product Reviews

NAMM 2011: SOS interview at the Rycote booth

Watch the online interview of Scott Boland (Redding Audio Inc., exclusive distributor of Rycote in the USA & Canada), by SoundOnSound at NAMM 2011!

Date: 10/01/2011

Rycote S-Series 330 Review

Read the S-Series review by by Ryan J.Frias

Date: 20/12/2010
Category: Product Reviews

Rycote to design custom shock mounts for Milab Microphones

Milab Microphones is proud to announce a collaboration with Rycote, the British manufacturer of industry-standard microphone windshields and suspensions.

Date: 16/12/2010

Philip Bloom reviews Rycote’s products for HDSLR use

A great review from Philip Bloom's blog on using Rycote products for shooting HDSLR video.

Date: 03/12/2010
Category: Product Reviews

WInd Cheaters: Focus Magazine reviews Rycote products

Focus Magazine reviews Rycote products

Date: 03/12/2010
Category:

IBC 2010: Rycote introduces the brand new, Lyre-based, Stereo Suspensions

Watch the online SOS interview of Stefano Pucello, Rycote's Sales & Marketing Manager, at IBC 2010!

Date: 01/11/2010

IBC 2010: Rycote presents its Universal Camera Kit - Interview by SOS TV

Watch the online SOS interview of Stefano Pucello, Rycote's Sales & Marketing Manager, at IBC 2010!

Date: 01/11/2010

Rycote’s USM supports Myanmar orphans in Thai charity appeal

Rycote Makes First Donation From USM Sales To Future Light Children's Home

Date: 16/10/2010

New face for UK Sales & Business Development at Rycote

Tim Constable Settles In As Rycote's UK Sales Manager

Date: 16/10/2010

Rycote launch new Lightwave Boom Pole

1.6-metre A-3 Pole Is The Baby Of The Lightwave Range

Date: 16/10/2010

Introducing Rycote’s new Stereo Suspensions

More Efficient, More Robust Lyre Clips Debut In Rycote's Redesigned Stereo Suspension Range

Date: 16/10/2010

Sound with Vision

Fixing poor-quality audio in post can be a difficult and costly business. So what can be done to reduce the problem before it gets to that stage? Adrian Pennington asks the experts. Poor-quality audio is often reason enough for viewers to change channel, yet cheap-sounding soundtracks are commonly caused by basic production errors that could have been avoided. Tight budgets and a lack of training are often to blame for the mistakes, which can cause longer post times, increase costs and compromise creativity, when in most cases they would not have occurred if just a little more attention had been paid. With the fidelity of TV sets sharpening and the demand for 5.1 surround sound increasing, producers can't afford to ignore the impact of bad audio on a viewer's experience.

Date: 02/09/2010
Category: Industry News

Demonstration of the new Schoeps Super CMIT by IOCO

Come along to IOCO's evening demo of the new Schoeps Super CMIT on Thursday, 2nd September

Date: 31/08/2010
Category: Industry News

Paul Mac reviews the USM for Audio Media

Read the Audio Media review of Rycote's Universal Studio Mount (USM)

Date: 09/08/2010
Category: Product Reviews

Hugh Robjohns reviews the USM for Sound On Sound

Decent shockmounts can actually improve the sound you get from your mics, but they can be expensive and not always durable. Rycote aim to solve both problems with their new designs.

Date: 09/08/2010
Category: Product Reviews

DPA broadcast solutions bring lifelike clarity to sound and broadcast from Portuguese stadium

DPA's Portuguese distributor Avantgarde has supplied a 5100 mobile surround microphone and ten 4017mk2-R shotgun mics with Rycote weather protection systems to Radio e Televisao de Portugal (RTP), to be used at the Dragon Stadium in Porto, on the UEFA Champions League Porto vs Chelsea football match.

Date: 20/07/2010
Category: Industry News

Distributor Focus - The Rycote Lifers

Rycote has now been in business for over 40 years; enough time for many people closely associated with the company over the years, such as original founder and designer John Gozzard and long-standing Managing Director Vivienne Dyer, to have made incredible contributions to Rycote's history and then to have taken their retirement. However, two people who have now been associated with the company for over three decades - a commercial lifetime - are still involved with it to this day: Robert Sloss, head of Rycote's Australian distributor Syntec, its longest-standing international sales representative; and Steen Peitersen, who now heads Rycote's Scandanavian distribution channel, Sennheiser Nordic. With over 35 and 30 years respectively of dealing with Rycote behind them, we asked the 'Rycote Lifers' how these commercial relationships had begun, and why they thought they had endured so long.

Date: 07/07/2010
Category: Dealer News

JZ Microphones and Rycote team up to develop JZI-7, a shock-mount for BT201 and BT301 series mics

JZI|7 is a shock-mount for BT201 and BT301 series microphones. As JZI|7 has amazing damping characteristics, it is highly recommended for any pencil type microphone which has similar thickness (24mm) with BT201 and BT301 series microphones. JZI|7 are made by Rycote specially for JZ Microphones.

Date: 23/06/2010
Category: Product News

Holophone’s® and Rycote collaborate on windscreens for company’s complete microphone line

Holophone®, a leading manufacturer of surround microphones and Rycote, a top manufacturer of professional audio windshielding and shockmounting systems, have teamed up to develop windscreen systems for Holophone's entire line of surround microphones - H2-PRO, H3-D and H4 SuperMINI.

Date: 23/06/2010
Category: Product News

DPA joins forces with Rycote to provide windshield solution for 4017 shotgun

DPA Microphones has joined forces with Rycote to develop the DPA 4017-R Shotgun/Rycote Windshield Solution. The new strong suspension and windshield solution has been designed specifically to take the DPA 4017 shotgun mic's compact size and light weight into consideration.

Date: 23/06/2010
Category: Product News

Rycote show large-diaphragm mic shock-mount in Frankfurt

InVision Studio Mount Offers Substantially More Isolation Than Elastic Suspensions

Date: 24/05/2010
Category: Press Releases

New UK Sales Manager

A warm welcome to Tim Constable, Rycote's new UK Sales Manager

Date: 20/05/2010
Category: Dealer News

SANKEN Introduces the new CS-2

Sanken Microphone Co. has announced the introduction of a new shotgun microphone, the CS-2, a long-reach shotgun mic with rich, natural tone

Date: 16/05/2010
Category: Industry News

Rycote sponsors artist and producer Francesco Sondelli

For the recording of his new album, acclaimed song writer, performer and producer Francesco Sondelli has approached Rycote to get hold of some Universal Studio Mounts (USM), our latest shock-mount suspensions for large-diaphragm studio microphones.

Date: 26/04/2010

New Sales & Marketing Assistant

Welcome to Caroline Mougenot, Rycote's new Sales & Marketing Assistant

Date: 12/04/2010
Category: Dealer News

On Thin Ice

50 Degrees Below Zero, Wind Speed 108 mph: Rycote In Antarctica

Date: 24/02/2010
Category: Case Studies

New Sales & Marketing Manager

We are pleased to announce the apppointment of Stefano Pucello, Rycote's new Sales & Marketing Manager

Date: 18/01/2010
Category: Dealer News

Introducing Rycote’s new complete camera-mounting mic Windshield/Shockmount solution

The show is the first opportunity for international customers and press to see the new system, which was announced earlier this summer and offers videographers and video production companies everything they need to protect high-quality camera-mounted mics from wind noise and unwanted vibrations from the camera's operator and motor when working on location.

Date: 30/09/2009

Rycote’s Softie Reborn

Rycote has announced the immediate availability of a redesigned version of its Softie windshield and microphone mount incorporating the company's patented Lyre suspension technology.

Date: 17/06/2009
Category: Product News

Foam Sweet Foam From Rycote

Rycote has released a new range of foam microphone windshields, available in a variety of shapes and sizes for microphones of all kinds.

Date: 17/06/2009
Category: Product News

Rycote Focuses On Video With New Mic Mounts And Windshields

Rycote has introduced the first of its new products for 2009. The Rycote for Video system is a combined microphone shockmount, suspension and compact windscreen aimed at videographers.

Date: 17/06/2009
Category: Product News

Rycote Flies The Falls In South Africa

A Rycote Softie has become a crucial tool in the location recording armoury of Mark Becker, a South African documentary maker with a taste for adventure.

Date: 17/06/2009
Category: Case Studies

Rycote Protects Surround Mic On Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’

Rycote's Modular Windshield system played an important role during the location sound recording for Baz Luhrmann's recent epic film 'Australia'.

Date: 17/06/2009
Category: Case Studies

Rycote Sponsor Helps New Polar Challenge Entrants

As the preparations for the 2010 Polar Challenge begin, one of last year's winners, Rycote sponsor Barney Franklin, has been giving advice to the next set of entrants to the race.

Date: 17/06/2009
Category: Press Releases

Coloured Visions from Rycote

Rycote have supplied UK-based Outside Broadcast specialists NEP Visions with several sets of coloured windjammer, each designed to match the colour of their sponsors' adverts so that the windshields will blend in unobtrusively during broadcasts.

Date: 16/06/2009
Category: Case Studies

Foam Windshields

Launched June 2009

Date: 01/06/2009
Category: Product News

InVision Video

Launched June 2009

Date: 01/06/2009
Category: Product News

Softie Lyre Mount

Launched in June 2009, the Softie Lyre Mount replaces the classic Softie rubber mount, using the patented "Lyre" technology.

Date: 01/06/2009
Category: Product News

Softie Windshield 19-22 mm

From June 2009, the Small & Medium Hole Softie windshields are now combined to the "Standard" hole Softie, suiting microphones from 19-22 mm diameter.

Date: 01/06/2009
Category: Product News

Windshield 10 Kit

We are pleased to announce the introduction of a new windshield kit into the range at the beginning of February 2008.

Date: 04/02/2009
Category: Product News

Exclusive distributors in India and Slovakia

Rycote is please to announce the appointment of two new exclusive distributors in India and Slovakia.

Date: 04/01/2009
Category: Dealer News

Hat’s off to Rycote’s New Mini Windjammer

Five New Windshields Unveiled For Compact Digital Field Recorders

Date: 01/12/2008

InVision Launch (March 2008)

UK Manufacturer Unveils Innovative Microphone Suspension System In Frankfurt

Date: 12/03/2008
Category: Product News

Hugh Robjohns reviews the Lyre Suspensions for Line Up

Studio microphone suspensions are often surprisingly costly affairs but Rycote's new 'lyres' look set to redefine the market. Hugh Robjohns MIBS reports.

Date: 03/03/2008
Category: Product Reviews

Windjammer Gets Thumbs up from Cotswold Wildlife Park

Burford, UK; November 2007 - UK-based manufacturer of microphone accessories Rycote has added Cotswold Wildlife Park to their growing list of happy customers after the parks' adoption of the lavalier furry windjammer for use with their personal microphones.

Date: 01/11/2007
Category: Press Releases

Rycote Heralds S-Series Windshield System at IBC 2007

Microphone windshield manufacturing company, Rycote exhibits its newest addition, the S-Series at IBC this year at Stand 8.589.

Date: 01/09/2007
Category: Product News

Rycote Grows Into New Premises

Stroud, July 2007 - Rycote consolidates its position at the forefront of the microphone windshield manufacturing industry by moving to brand new premises in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Date: 01/07/2007
Category: Press Releases

S-series Launch (June 2007)

Rycote Launches Pioneering Windshield System: S-Series

Date: 01/06/2007