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Re: Recording in the rain

Subject: Re: Recording in the rain
From: "Mike Rooke" picnet2
Date: Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:06 pm ((PST))
Rainbar mic designed to be deployed in the rain without a blimp or cover - =
directly rained on. - heres an example with it in a hedge:-
http://soundcloud.com/urlme/pipmics-rainbar-hedge-noeq/

Not sold or made anymore.

-Mike

--- In  Gianni Pavan <> wrote:
>
> hi, it would be nice to also hear a snippet of rain .....
>
> Gianni
>
> 2011/2/21 Avocet <>
>
> > I've just had an all-nighter with rain coming and going. At what
> > should have been sunrise, with the oak above the mics still dripping,
> > a squirrel opened procedures. Here's a short clip with it duetting
> > with a thrush. You can hear the squirrel on the ground scuttling right
> > to left.
> >
> > http://www.stowford.org/sounds/dr000975after_rain.mp3
> > (Only bass roll-off on the mixer used.)
> >
> > I've recorded hours of this bird recently and I have called it a song
> > thrush but can someone please confirm this as it has an extremely
> > varied repertoire.
> >
> >  The forecast said rain this midday so I took a chance and left my
> > MKH's out last night under a large triple-trunked oak which offers
> > some protection. I record in the bedroom and hardly got off to sleep
> > in the early hours when the rain arrived. It sounds torrrential on the
> > mics. I got dressed and squelched into the woods to cover the mics
> > with a towel and shortly afterwards the rain stopped and I went down
> > again to remove the almost dry towel.
> >
> > Some time before dawn, the rain arrived again and sounded very heavy.
> > I got up to take them in twice but found it was only showers so left
> > them out. I didn't get much sleep listening to the downpours and
> > worrying about the mics as I'm a pensioner and can't afford to replace
> > them.
> >
> > When I brought them in this morning, I found the yeti covers had kept
> > the Rycotes dry and the mics were fine inside. Everything is now
> > drying out fully, but I really shouldn't have worried so much.
> >
> > David
> >
> > David Brinicombe
> > North Devon, UK
> > Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> > sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Kraus=
e.
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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