This is a brief excerpt from FreshDV
I’m not an audio guy, but oftentimes for quick-n-dirty talking head interviews I have need for an audio boom pole. So I recently purchased a K-Tek KE-79CC Traveler Avalon Series pole. This is a lightweight fishpole with an internal XLR cable that terminates in the base of the pole. I chose this model for affordability (just $225 at Beards & Hats), light weight, and it’s very short length when collapsed; just 1′ 8″ (it measures 6′ 7″ when fully extended).
So after a couple shoots, I noticed that I couldn’t collapse the pole entirely any more. There was always at least one section that would not fully collapse. You could feel the cable creating resistance inside the pole. So I emailed K-Tek, and they got right back to me with a link to a tutorial video for the fix. It turns out that I’d made the rookie mistake of twisting my pole around several times while extending and collapsing it, and had created a kink in the internal coiled cable. The fix was very simple, and took just a few minutes to rectify.
The XLR connector in the base unscrews from the pole…simply insert a female XLR …
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