Ahh, well hello fellow bike traveler...
"More a case of ready accessibility than any problem of protection"
and
"Both Sony MZ RH1 with Shure WL183's are not particularly delicate and are =
small"
Ok, that helps. Like I said, I don't have them yet, but I would hate to dam=
age something when I have dropped hundreds on the gear. I have a regular mo=
untain bike, so I figured I would either put them in my handlebar bag (with=
my camera) or on the top=A0of my panniers (also easy to get at). I thought=
of making a custom padded "stuff sack" with draw string for the gear, just=
in case.=A0I'm handy in making stuff, sounds like you are as well. I would=
love to see pics of your custom made panniers. I have never ridden a recum=
bant, they look fun though.
Speaking of touring, the Ochoco mountains recording (from John Hartog, I th=
ink?) is nice. I biked the Trans American trail in 1996, and that goes thro=
ugh the Ochoco=A0area and over the Ochoco pass. So I have been there. But a=
t that time, I didn't pay attention to sounds like I do now, I loved the sc=
enery, it is beautiful there!=A0I can look at my old pics of Ochoco, and li=
sten to the recording ! :) But I must say, I would now love to incorperate =
recording with touring. I think the only time I would do it is during the n=
ight (or early morning)=A0while I'm camped, or in the middle of the day whi=
le I'm out in the middle of nowhere, taking a break.
(I got the recording bug when I was on St. John-Virgin Islands, and the fro=
gs were so loud at night it was hard to get to sleep!=A0I recorded them on =
my digital camera, a terrible mono recording, but enough to get me hooked)
"People are startled enough to encounter me at the road shoulder pointing
a Telinga at something. Think about a recumbent trike with a telinga
mounted...."
=A0
Ha ha ha!!! Yeah, that would be a double take!
Do you have a Bird Voiced Treefrog recording you can share? I would absolut=
aly love to hear one!
Where do you live Walt? I have never heard of these frogs.
Thanks Walt.
~dave
Posted by: ""
> Well, all your toads are great, as is the Bird voiced treefrog."
Bird voiced treefrogs are the "stun guns" of frogs around here. They
call at ear height and are not shy about calling with that ear only
inches from them when they let loose with their very loud calls.
They are also one of my favorite frogs.
> I look forward to the day when I can carry my own equipment with me when =
I go backpacking and bicycle touring. Actually, not sure about the bicycle =
touring with equipment yet... I think it may be a bit rough for the electro=
nics. Which leads me to a question.
>
> We already discussed some of the backpacking solutions, I am assuming tha=
t anyone who carries there recording equipment on a backpacking trip will a=
pply to bicycle touring as well. Just more padding possibly. I plan on carr=
ying a Sony MZ RH1 with Shure WL183's (when I get them, don't have them yet=
) I killed a camera during a tour, possibly from the jarring but thats only=
speculation. That's why I would be hesitant to carry my recording gear on =
a bike tour. Where as on a backpacking trip, one has more "control" over th=
ere belongings.
>
> Anyone in the group out there bicycle tour and carry there gear with them=
? If so, what do you do to protect your gear?
I bicycle tour, my preferred use of a bicycle. Actually my current ride
is a recumbent tadpole trike, a very capable touring machine...
I've always taken camera gear along. I build my own panniers and such
like, so have generally designed specific carrying solutions for the
camera. More a case of ready accessibility than any problem of protection.
I don't anticipate it would take much to protect a walkman MD or the
Shure WL183's on a bike tour. Both are not particularly delicate and are
small.
For me my big problem with sound recording while touring is that the
frogs call at night. Imagine wandering through the night on a recumbent
trike recording frogs. Imagine making that fit touring. I've been
kicking it around, but have yet to come up with a good solution.
Carrying the gear is really not the problem. How you build a bike tour
done mostly at night and generally using the poorest of roads is the
problem.
With the price of gas on it's way up and up, it's not a academic
question. Fuel costs are cutting into my ability to travel to record. So
I have been considering getting something tiny in a recorder and working
toward some high quality mic options for this.
People are startled enough to encounter me at the road shoulder pointing
a Telinga at something. Think about a recumbent trike with a telinga
mounted....
Walt
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sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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