Re: 90 degrees in the shade - mic failure?

Ty Ford wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:59:21 -0400, Beta Zero wrote
> (in article
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0805011145140.28045-100000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> 
>>> "Beta Zero"  wrote in ...
>>>> (Trying to record a music band outdoors)
>>>>
>>>> Please give me some advice-
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking of digitally recording an outdoor musical performance 
>>>> in late June 2008, and I am worried that some microphones are 
>>>> subject to failure, or at least an unusual performance of some kind, 
>>>> if the microphones - or the wire hookups - sit around baking in the 
>>>> sun.  If the weather is in the mid 90s F, in the shade, and even 
>>>> worse in direct sunlight, should I take precautions like shading the 
>>>> microphones in the shade of an umbrella or parasol?  Or am I 
>>>> worrying about something that's not worrying about?
> 
> I once had a Countryman EMW go dead on a shoot at the Baltimore Orioles 
> stadium. It was about 100 degrees F. (the thermometer in the sun said
112!)
> 
> Other EMW's were OK. When I got back home, the mic was fine and has been
OK 
> since then.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Ty Ford
> 
> 

I always thought those things would withstand anything short of nuclear 
attack. Did it have a black finish, by any chance?

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