User manual

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The following additional general precautions should be ob-
served for instruments with prominent tapering or doming.
1. Check that the H-clamp’s disks are able to remain parallel with both
upper and lower edges of the sound box as the clamp is tightened. If not,
take further precautions:
2. Tighten the H-clamp as hard as possible without risking damage to the
instrument. Take particular care with domed surfaces to avoid exerting
enough pressure to crush, distort or mark them but in all instances, ensure
that the pressure being exerted at any point around the clamp disks is not
sufficient to over-compress the protective rubber rings. The H-clamp must
never be tightened to the point where compression of the rubber rings is
enough to bring the hard rim of the clamp disk into contact with the instru-
ment surface or to cause indentations.
3. When tightened as much as possible without risking damage to the
instrument, check that the H-clamp is fitted securely enough to hold the
chosen microphone’s weight without working loose. On tapering or domed
surfaces, it is particularly important to ensure the weight of the micro-
phone will not cause the clamp disks to rotate. The clamp may be fitted
securely enough to make pulling it off the edge of the instrument very dif-
ficult but a twisting action can cause it to come adrift much more readily.
Left- and right-handed configurations
All LiveStrings H-clamps are supplied in a con-
figuration for right-handed adjustment and left-
handed tightening. Holding the H-clamp so that
the side of the top disk with the Exploraudio logo
is facing towards you, the boom grip tightening
screw is on the left side.
The handedness can be reversed by unscrewing
and removing the boom grip tightening screw
completely, turning the boom grip 180 degrees
and re-fitting the boom grip tightening screw in
to the opposite side. NOTE: for H-clamp Solid
models only, ensure the ‘O’-ring has not become
dislodged from its recess in the ‘lug’ on top of
the disk onto which the boom grip fits. If it does
become dislodged, refit it before sliding the
boom grip back into position over the lug.