A lot of cheaper microphone clips and even expensive microphones have hardened molded plastic threads on the end of the mic clip that goes onto a microphone stand.

Although they are pretty hard, they still tend to break, bend, and fail all the time.  I have gone through tons of mic clips that become unusable because of this cheap design.  Along with cheap mic clips, I have also come across cheap microphone stands which have a silver metal microphone clip adapter.

I’m not entirely sure why they use these sliver caps because the mic stands work fine without them.  With that being said, if we take the metal mic clip adapter and attach it to our plastic mic clip, we get a mic clip with a metal threaded adapter.  This mating of the two pieces together gives us a mic clip that has a strong thread that is a lot harder to damage than the hardened plastic one!

Read more for more pictures of mic clip and metal adapter combos.

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