If not airfare, the tougher metal case NH-900 is going in a bundle
with the Sony ECM-DS70P Stereo Microphone that Martyn tested and 10
free discs. http://tinyurl.com/7sgbl. ME-62's seem right. A wide
spread pair running all night in HiSP mode; wake up when a chorus
starts to aim the parabola on a second rig. I'd risk two recorders
if that permitted four mics or a good shock mount/zep set-up that
would quickly clamp onto branches. The 900's can take some impact.
Rubber jacket, thin lavaliere mic cable to cut down on bulk. Lots of
discs, alkaline batteries, some silica drying agent packets for
Bernie's zip lock bag trick. Rob D.
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At 2:06 AM +0000 1/13/06, oryoki2000 wrote:
>I'm in contact with a group who are planning to study New Guinea
>Singing Dogs in the high Papua New Guinea mountains. The team will
>record in remote villages, where the dogs are domesticated. They will
>backpack to even more remote wild areas in the hopes that they can
>record vocalizations of free-living groups of dogs.
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>The group needs:
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>1. Very small and lightweight recording equipment, since for part of
>the trip the gear has to be carried by hand in steep mountain terrain.
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>2. Equipment that uses battery power sparingly, to minimize the number
>of batteries to be carried; there is no generator power available to
>recharge.
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>3. Equipment that will keep on working in very humid and muddy conditions.
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>4. Gear that is relatively inexpensive because funds are limited; it's
>important to take backups for every piece of gear.
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>My initial thought is to purchase Sony MZ-RH910 Hi-MD recorders and
>Sennheiser ME mics, and a parabola if funds permit. Use two ME62s for
>ambience, and one in the parabola. Take 3 Hi-MDs just in case
>something happens, plus spares of all cables.
>
>What would you recommend?
>
>Thanks,
>--oryoki
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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