Ronan Hill
CAS, Production Sound Mixer

Rycote’s new Stickies and Overcovers are an essential tool in the wireless mic box.

Darrell Briggs
AMPS, Sound Mixer / Supervisor / Recordist

Not content with producing a catalogue of industry standard products, Rycote are constantly listening to end-users and striving to improve and develop new products.
Next up, the ubiquitous Stickies get a complete overhaul and more choices. Now, an even stickier, medical grade adhesive, but also in mic & mount specific sizing options, and with a new ‘skin tone’ Overcover. Already an essential part of any professional’s mic kit, now, even more so.

Peter Olsted
Sound Mixer

The new circular Stickies with a hole in the middle are genius! When mounting my lavs under clothing, but on to the fabric with an Overcover (does that make sense?) I don’t lose the transparency which happened with the normal circular Stickies because of their thickness. So now the fabric gives me wind protection from one side, and the Overcover from the other.

Malcolm Davies
Production Sound Mixer

I keep all the Rycote bits along with the new size Stickies in a bag marked ‘Ronseal’. Cos the bits do exactly what it says on the tin!

Calum Thomson
Sound Recordist / Supervisor

Working in a wide array of filming locations has its challenges so when it comes to mic choice and placement, I never want to be restricted or have to compromise. Rycote have developed a range of Stickies to make sure they can get secure placement with adequate wind protection – even in challenging situations, they have to stop in the box of tricks and become my go to solution!

Good clean source audio is key and Rycote have developed a range of Stickies to help me achieve it every time.

Ian Whitehead
Production Sound Mixer

When placing mics on artists wearing period costumes, it’s been great to have different options. The new Stickies we’ve found most useful are the circular ones with the hole in the middle, particularly with the Overcovers, when shooting outdoors scenes in a windy environment.

Simon Bysshe
Production Sound Mixer

The new individually cut Stickies are great! They are a bit bigger which allows them to be used with DPA Concealers, and the new Square stickie is perfect for RM11 mounts. They seem stickier too which is always a bonus! I also love the new ‘Stickie donuts’ 🙂 these will be going straight into my regular kit when they finally hit the shelves.

Michael Taylor
Sound Recordist

Loving the new beige colour Overcover. The ‘doughnuts’ were fantastic for sticking over mics in DPA concealers, as well as straight onto the mic head.

Oliver Machin
MIPS, Sound Recordist

The new square Stickies are perfect for using with Sanken RM11 rubber mounts. Quick and easy to fit. Simple but effective.

The new large sized Overcovers and Stickies are just what I have been wanting. Those few extra mm make all the difference when fitting a pop-shield onto a COS-11 under the Overcover. The beige / off-white Overcovers are also great. Bright white Overcovers tend to stand out so it saves a couple of uses to wear them in!

The ‘doughnut’ Stickies are brilliant. It now makes it possible to wrap an Overcover on the end of a concealer or RM-11 mount. I can also easily fit an Overcover over the internal mic of a DSLR camera to help with giving a better-quality scratch track.

Personal mic placement, and in particularly hidden mic placement, has become increasingly important in modern location sound capture. A day of rustle-free radio mics can be a joyous day – however a day with rustling mics and wind across the capsules can quickly turn a day’s filming into a miserable stressful day. So, it’s fantastic that a company like Rycote is dedicating so much attention to producing “problem solvers” that can help us concentrate on mixing sound with a smile on our faces!

Peter Davis
Boom Operator

…it sort of brought back that ease of use (which we all enjoyed first with Stickies), with the two peel-off tabs – and it is sticker than its predecessor. So, it is an all-round improvement.

Scott J Farr
CAS, Production Sound Mixer

Used them on some commercials with A-list celebrities and they stayed stuck and of all the complaining they did they didn’t complain about the adhesive. Worked as advertised.

Jon Gilbert
Production Sound Mixer

Working on documentaries, I need to mic people quickly and I need to get it right first time. The new Rycote Stickies and Overcovers make this easier than ever!

Gary Stadden
Freelance Sound Recordist

I have been using Overcovers and Stickies now since Rycote sent some testers out many, many years ago. These have become my standard way for attaching Cos 11’s to clothing.

I really like the new square Stickies, and have been using them with the rubber RM11 Cos mounts.

I recently used one of the ‘donut’ Stickies placed over the end of an RM11, then attached an Overcover, then placed inside the knot of a tie, and stuck in place with a new square Stickie.

It was a fairly windy day, and the fact that I could place an Overcover quickly to the mic mount using a ‘donut’ sticky made a huge difference…. I shall be trying this technique again in the future.

Pete Lee
Sound Recordist

Quick rigging of lots of Overcovers onto DPAs in concealer discs today, easy and fast with the ‘doughnut’ Stickies, love em, perfect!