In rain forest I keep my equipment stored with desiccant as much as
possible, usually in plastic bags inside my backpack or belly-pack.
another option is to rent microphones for the trip. You'd treat them
just as carefully as your own but would be covered by insurance. You
also have the option of using the mike you think best versus the mike
you have....
Tim Nielsen wrote:
> Here's a question. I know my Schoeps are fairly sensitive to high
> humidity environments. But I want to go sometime this year and record
> rain forest. My thinking was, what if put a desiccant bag or two
> inside the Rycote Zeppelin, do you think it'd help? Or is that just
> too much humidity.
>
> Anyone using Schoeps with experience in high humidity environments? I
> know the Sennheiser MKH are fantastic for this type of recording, but
> can't justify a pair just for a trip or two. I'm hoping I can make my
> Schoeps work. Will be using a double MS setup, and a space omni pair,
> maybe using a Jecklin disc too for some stuff. I'm not sure when I'm
> going, probably later this year, but am starting to think about the
> humidity problem, see if anyone has any clever ideas.
>
> Tim
>
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>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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