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The Rycote 18cm Classic-Softie (19/22) is a professional-grade slip-on windshield designed to deliver fast, effective wind protection for shotgun microphones with a 19–22mm diameter and interference tube slots no further than 18cm from the mic tip.

Ideal for ENG, documentary, and location recording, this Softie is a reliable solution for sound professionals who need to capture clean audio in unpredictable outdoor conditions. It’s compatible with widely used microphones such as the RØDE NTG-3, Sennheiser MKH 416, Sanken CS-3e, and Sony ECM 678.

The Classic-Softie features Rycote’s specially engineered open-cell acoustic foam and high-quality synthetic fur. This combination provides up to 25 dB of wind noise attenuation while maintaining excellent acoustic transparency, ensuring your recordings retain their natural tonal balance.

Built to withstand the rigours of professional use, the Softie is both UV and moisture-resistant. Its robust construction ensures long-term durability, even in harsh environments. Whether mounted on a boom pole or used handheld, it offers a quick and effective solution for reducing wind noise without the need for additional accessories.

What’s in the box:
• 18cm Classic-Softie Windshield (19/22mm)

Why choose Rycote?
With over 50 years of experience supporting the global sound community, Rycote products are hand-assembled in the UK and trusted by professionals worldwide. The Classic-Softie range continues this legacy—offering dependable, no-fuss wind protection that just works.

Whether you're capturing dialogue on set, recording wildlife, or covering live events, the Rycote 18cm Classic-Softie helps ensure your audio remains clean, clear, and professional.

Made to offer the wind attenuation properties of a full sized windshield in a much smaller package, the BBG Windshields are designed to slip onto the body of the microphone. This allows the microphone to be hand-held or shock-mounted with a Lyre suspension.

Perfect for short microphones, the BBG Windshield are suitable for low-profile boom applications as well as for use in hand-held operations and interviews. They are widely used for microphones with bulbous ends and ORTF microphone pairs, where the maximum head diameter is 80 mm.

The windshield is constructed of the same material as the full size modular windshields, but rather than clipping to a microphone suspension, the Windshield is mounted directly on the microphone, by a grommet gripping the microphone body. The microphone is pushed through the grommet, to completely enclose the microphone capsule.

The Windshield consists of two halves, which can be separated, to fit microphones with a ball-head or tapered body from inside the windshield. For additional wind protection a furry Windjammer cover is available.

The Softie Mount, used with the Softie Windshield provides a fast, flexible and cost effective solution for ENG use and forms a robust and practical windshield (70mm in diameter) which can be effectively used without the mount in handhels operation mode.

The Softie Windshield & Shockmount system comprises of the following:
Softie Windshield The Softie Windshield is a slip on open cell foam, with an integral fitted fur cover. The Softie will reduce wind noise and protect your microphone, and is the standard world-wide in TV. Available in a large range of sizes to fit most popular microphones.

Softie Mount The mount is a simple but effective. The mount comes in 3 sizes, dependant on the diameter of your microphone. The attachment below the mount is then determined by the intended use of the mount, for example Pistol grip handle, boom pole adaptor or the Multi Mount for use on a camcorders hotshoe.

The main component of the Softie mount is a one piece rubber (actual material: EPDM) diaphragm shockmount. This unit is extremely robust, and has been tested in all environment conditions to ensure it performs.

The mounts are 58mm diameter x 56mm long, and support short to medium length shotgun microphones. Please use the ''Quick Product Finder'' to see what size you need for your mic. The Softie mount will only fit shotgun microphones, which are cylindrical in shape (the same diameter though their whole length). We can not mount microphones that taper, with the Softie mount.

The longest Softie Windshields have an internal bore of 32cm (12-1/2'') - Example:AKG CK68 or Audio Technica AT815b. These are the longest microphones we would recomend using a Softie Mount for, simply because the mount is flexible & cannot support longer mics. For longer mics, we would only recomend a Full Windshield System, and a Modular suspension.

The Super-Softie® with our material 3D-Tex™ combines superb wind noise reduction with excellent acoustic transparency.

Excellent noise reduction and weather durability

The Super-Softie® retains the excellent wind noise reduction of a conventional cavity windshield but allies it to a novel aerodynamic shape and surface structure, and to a material - 3D-Tex™ - which combines excellent acoustic transparency with superb attenuation of wind noise. It has no rigid internal structure, so causes virtually no polar pattern distortion and is extremely robust in challenging environments such as news-gathering.

If it becomes rain-soaked it can be squeezed out and shaken dry very quickly; if it becomes coated with dust it can be rinsed quickly without affecting its performance.

The shape & structure of the Super Softie® allow it to reduce wind noise at extreme LF and infrasonic frequencies - where the greatest wind energy lies - more efficiently than previous designs.