Hi Vicki and Umashankar,
Thanks for your opinion.
I suppose I should have it checked by Sennheiser, then. I hope it is not
going to be too expensive a repair.
In the meantime, I left the MKH30 powered on for a few hours yesterday,
and I did not hear the problem afterwards. I turned it off, on again,
several times, and heard no particular problem... I left it off for the
night and I'll test it again, under an identical setup later on today.
Thanks.
DL
Vicki
From:
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Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 1:00 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Problem with a Sennheiser MKH30 - "like
a growing bubble of static"
Hi Dominique,
I agree with umashankar. I had the same thing happen with a (new)
MKH20 and it was repaired under warranty.
cheers,
Vicki
On 23/05/2010, at 8:27 PM, umashankar wrote:
> sounds to me like a failing electret capacitor to me, rather than
> humidity/
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> From: Rob Danielson < <type%40uwm.edu> >
> To:
<naturerecordists%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sun, May 23, 2010 2:25:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Problem with a Sennheiser MKH30 -
> "like a growing bubble of static"
>
> Hi DL--
> Sounds like description of an affect of moisture-- especially if it
> goes away completely at times. Some conditions will provoke this. If
> you're curious at what they were this time, you can check local
> weather resources and see of you can find some charts plotting
> humidity, temp and the dewpoint at that time. For US locations, a
> good resource for this is Mesowest http://mesowest.utah.edu/index.html
>
> There's considerable discussion about this in the List Archives.
> Here's a search of "mic moisture" for example
> http://tinyurl.com/2wfus7m Rob D.
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>
> At 9:19 AM +0200 5/23/10, Laloux, Dominique wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Can someone reassure me that this problem can be solved ?
>>
>> I used one of my 2 Sennheiser MKH30 yesterday in a M/S setup with a
>> MKH60, recording with my Fostex FR-2LE.
>> As soon as I pushed the standby button, I started to hear rather
>> loud statics through the headphones.
>>
>> Turned the recorder off, then on again, and the problem repeated
>> itself. Several times. Turned the phantom power on/off, used a
>> different set of XLR cables... nothing stopped the problem from
>> occuring. I tested both mics alone and the problem occured with the
>> MKH30 only.
>>
>> The way it happens can be better described as a growing bubble of
>> static : the noise starts very low, then it grows louder and louder
>> for a some time (20-30 seconds or more) and becomes so loud that I
>> need to turn the volume down to near 0.
>> At some point, for no obvious reason, it then slowly "shrinks" back
>> and disappears.
>>
>> I decided to try and record our garden soundscape anyway, and I
>> ended up recording a full 2 hours with the problem repeating 3 times
>> during the 2 hours. The strange thing is that everything was
>> perfectly stable for the 2 hours, with no movement, no change in
>> controls, etc.
>>
>> What coud that be ? A defective condenser ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> DL
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