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Re: Condom tests underwater?

Subject: Re: Condom tests underwater?
From: "Richard Humphries" <>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:27:28 -0000
I've tried the mic in a condom underwater trick. I had very limited
success. There was some deal on musiciansfriend.com where they were
selling 6 mics (sm58 rip-offs) for $100. I purchased them, wrapped
them in condoms and tried to seal the end as best as I could and then
threw them off of a dock into the Potomac River. I was attempting to
get water movement sounds, not sea life in particular.

I found that the condoms created a very high frequency clicking as the
mic was getting moved around in the current. It sounds like someone
snapping a rubber glove. These mics also had a real problem with
handling noise-- there was a terrible resonance created by the housing
itself. So I took the mic element out of it's housing, and wrapped a
condom around the element only. I still got the smacking of the condom
sound.

I also tried covering the mic element in foam and then wrapping it
with a condom. I had the most luck with this method, but I still
wouldn't call the experiment a success. In my case at least, it seemed
I was recording a condom being affected by an environment rather than
the environment itself.

-Richard


--- In  David Bradley
<> wrote:
>
> Just to add to this thread, has anyone tried waterproofing a mic in
a condom and recording underwater sounds ush as fish/dolphins etc?
>=20=20=20
>   David Bradley.
>
>=20





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