Der listers.
I am a new member to this list. I have run a blogpage
http://hljod.blog.is =96 Icelandic Soundblog. There are recordings of vario=
us
natural sounds. They are devided into several categories. See:
fuglar (birds), vatni=F0 (water), sj=F3rinn (the sea) umhverfishlj=F3=F0 (s=
ounds of
the environment) and recently vindurinn (the wind). More categories will be
set up with English names.
For some time I have used R=F8de microphones for my recordings: NT-2A +NT-5=
5
in a MS-setup and NT-1A in NOS or AB setup. The results have been sometimes
outstanding.
Recently the following problem occurred:
Last week I was in a summerhouse and left the microphones outside for whole
night on two occasions. I noticed that as the temperature lowered and the
dew fell on, something happened. A strange noise appeared. The first night =
I
had the microphones NT-2A and NT-55 in an MS-setup. Then the NT-2A was
affected and the second night both the NT-1A seemed to fail. Strangely the
microphones seemed to start working as the sun started to shine and warm up
the microphones which were covered with a dead cat. The temperature may hav=
e
been around 4-5=A8=B0 C and the dew had fallen. The microphones seem to hav=
e
started to fail after around 90 minutes.
I have created a soundfile with the noise from one of the NT-1A.
Has anyone on this list had any experience with this? My friend, Magn=FAs
Bergsson, thinks something might be wrong with the cables I used. Some test
shows that they seem to be in order.
The head of the Technical Department of The Icelandic State Radio, Georg
Magn=FAsson, thought the failure might be caused by the moisture and the l=
ow
temperature.
This makes me to think what to do. I have Senheiser ME-62 and 64 which I
have sometimes used in very harsh conditions, but I think they are a little
too noisy. Until 1 year ago I used a battery pack together with the 62 and
64, but now I have invested in two packs without batteries and the
microphones semm not as noisy as usually. They can however never be compare=
d
with the NT-2A and NT-1A.
Natural sounds, as of birds, here in Iceland are very low and sometimes
distant.
With very best regards,
Arnthor Helgason
Arnthor Helgason
http://hljod.blog.is
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