No problems with Sennheisers (MKH 20, 30, 40) in either Sumatra or
Borneo. Examples can be heard on our titles RAINSTORM IN BORNEO and
SUMATRA DAYS, SUMATRA NIGHTS
http://www.wildsanctuary.com/wildstore/soundscapes.html albums 3 & 4
at the top of the page. Orangs can be heard throughout along with an
amazing array of birds, frogs and insects. Most notably, the Sumatra
recording, made in Aceh Province, the site of the December 2005
tsunami, is a biophony that was wiped out with the deforestation
following the disaster and is no longer viable. It is one of many
sites we have where the biophony was so radically altered as to be
virtually non-existent.
As far as equipment, if one decides to record at those sites, keep in
mind that leeches are attracted in droves to anything warm,
especially equipment. So keep your recorders off the ground and away
from trees (tree leeches) or it will be completely covered with
wriggling critters about 1cm long that are quite hard to dislodge.
The also bore through leather shoes, or tennis shoes, and find their
way down into your rubber boots so that when you take off your shoes,
the little suckers are engorged with your blood. When you pull them
off, you bleed like a stuck pig because they exude an anticoagulant
that'll leave you dripping for hours. Yum - yum.
Bernie
>Sorry I missed the original post. I've a particular interest in
>primate recording. For low-frequency microphones, check out the
>elephant project at Cornell. But unless your friend will be looking
>specifically at very low-frequency in orang-utans, the focus should
>instead be on microphones that have a good record in the field:
>Sennheisers and the like. Sumatra and Borneo are notoriously tough
>places for equipment.
>Marc
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