Thanks Arron--
Is the below a correct summary of the mics/uses?
Microphones
2- Sennheiser ME66 [four years] (powered by batteries and FR-2LE phantom)
2- Sennhesier ME62 [three years] (powered by batteries and FR-2LE phantom)
Location, Daily Usage, Precautions:
(1) Costa Rica: Used in the field for 6-8 hours/day. Mics sealed in
bag with silica and/or taken into a house at night.
(2) Peru: Foothills Andes/Headwaters of Amazon to Manu Road, 6-10
hours/day. Mics sealed in bag with silica almost every night and
during the day when not in use.
Comments:
RD: Both mics are permanently-charged electret condenser design;
there were few or no over-night uses; same mic units used.
Anything else to note anyone? Rob D.
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At 5:15 AM -0800 3/10/10, aaron s wrote:
> It was my Fiance who spent most of the time in the field but I am
>her tech guy and spent at least some time with her there so I can
>talk the most of the details. Mics were 2 Sennheiser ME66 [four
>years], 2 ME62 [three years] and some 3 self made mics for Parabolic
>dishes [four years]. Recorders were 2 Edirol R-09 [three years] and
>a 1 Fostex FR-2LE [two years]. Speaker for playbacks were a Pignose
>Guitar amp [four years] and 2 Dean Markley GT1200 [three years]. The
>Parabolic dishes we used were the Telinga dishes with self made
>mounts for my mics and self made mounts for Sennheiser ME62. Larger
>items [amps and Fostex] were kept in dry bags [the kind you get at a
>kayak store] smaller were kept in Ziplocs Silica was bought in a
>bulk quantity and put in panty hose, larger amounts for large bags.
>Each summer they would see about 2 months in Monteverde Costa Rica,
>each day the items would be in the field for 6-8 hours. Living
>situation was nice there living in a house so the gear did not go
>through so much stress. Peru is a different situation. Each year 4-5
>months living out of a tent, going from the foothills where the
>Andes meet the Amazon to the tree line on the Manu road. Each day
>the saw 6-10 hours of use and would spend most of the rest of the
>time in bags. All of the the gear were the same items the entire
>time. The only failures were the first years we had a minidisc
>recorder that was junk and had many different failures and never
>came back to the field with us, after that year we added the smaller
>amps, the Edirols and the Parabolic set ups. Both Edirols had the
>mic input go bad once at some point [thankfully different field
>seasons], a well established problem with these, both were fixed
>quickly when we got back to the states and after being fixed did not
>repeat the issue. And one of the Telinga dishes after four years
>became unusable with cracks along the edge and the mount hole,
>[these also
>see alot of use with undergrads when not in the field and the dish
>most likely suffered from improper use by said undergrads]. Hope
>this helps
>Aaron
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