Well I am back now. I did manage to make a recording Christmas morning
at my in-laws north of Spruce Grove, Alberta. I set out my mics about
7 hours before I started the recording. The temperature was about -33C
when I started the recording at about 6am. I set out the recorder
(SD702) only when I started to make the recording. There were
absolutely no problems at all. No pops, clicks or hissing.
Unfortunately there was nothing captured on the recording of any
significance likely due to the cold temperature. The world woke up at
around 8:30 and all the vehicle traffic and dogs etc. made a mess of
the silence. I did manage to pick up 2 trains rumbling through at a
distance of about 10km(6.25 miles)early on in the recording. I thought
Christmas morning would be a great chance of some real quite at the
acreage, but that was not to be. I have tried one other recording
there on a Sunday afternoon and there was literally not 10 seconds out
of 45 minutes without a quad, traffic, chainsaws, dogs, people etc. I
love how recording has opened my ears to what really is noise. At the
same time it makes me very sad to realize how little quiet is out there.
Collin Orthner
--- In "corthner" <> wrote:
>
> Hi Curt,
>
> I think I will set the mics out for a few hours to let them
> acclimatize before I start recording. I'll let you know how things go
> once I'm back.
>
> Collin
>
>
>
>
> --- In Curt Olson <cro@> wrote:
> >
> > It's -8F (-23C) here in Minneapolis this morning. I've had four
AT3032s
> > out overnight (in two stereo rigs). About a half hour after I set
them
> > out last evening, one of the four began spitting and sputtering
> > intermittently for a couple hours, and then settled down. They're all
> > doing fine this AM; I don't sense any loss of signal strength or
> > detail.
> >
> > Colin, would you mind letting us know how your 3032s handle the
deeper
> > cold in Alberta?
> >
> > Curt Olson
> >
> > Rob Danielson wrote:
> >
> > > At 10:35 PM +0000 12/20/08, corthner wrote:
> > >> Good day all,
> > >>
> > >> I have a chance at some recording in central Alberta over
Christmas
> > >> and want to use my AT3032's in a Curt Olsen style rig to record
> > >> birds. The only problem is the weather is predicted to be around
> -37C
> > >> overnight next Tuesday. Of course that's a long way off for
> > >> predictions, but the weather guys always seem to get the cold
> > >> predictions real close! Anyway, will this temperature harm the
mics
> > >> in any way? I understand that maybe the sound may not be quite as
> > >> accurate as things cool down, but physically will it harm them?
> > >>
> > >> Collin Orthner
> > >>
> > >
> > > Hi Collin--
> > > I believe this topic has a list history you might wish to probe:
> > > http://tinyurl.com/94cmop
> > > Rob D.
> >
>
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