Topic: Umbrellas covering mics?

[okietaper]

I have seen a lot of pics with umbrellas covering mics in the rig pics.  Some of the pics are on cloudy days and some are not, so I wonder http://what the umbrella is for?  If it is raining then would the rain hitting the umbrella make the recording lousy?  then if it is sunny are the umbrellas just to protect teh mics from the harmful UV rays?  I know this is probably a total newbie question, but that is exactly what I am.

Thanks
Cary

[okietaper]

I use SP C4 mics and they are silver.  Should I not be concerned with this given their color?

Thanks
Cary

[Krispy D]

cary,

I don't have any where near as much experience as a 'taper' as many, if not most on this board but I've lived my whole life around pro audio and in my experience you should have no fear of running your c4's for eight hours of 100 degree festie sunshine.  If your mics were glossy black and large diaphram I might hesitate, but really relax have a good time and +T for calling yourself a n00b ( me too )

Kris

[willndmb]

i never thought about sun and mics being a prob combo
good to know and think about

[Krispy D]

there you we go again, man I gotta  change my avitar...

[admkrk]

we had probs with a 4011 in blazing SoCali sun. It started declining in output strength. As soon as the heat let up, for the second set, the problem went away.

in s.cal(la area anyway), i'd be more woried about what the sun is "blazeing" through than ol' sol itself. i know it hurt my eyes the one time i was there. 

[Krispy D]

ya, your prob right.  Sun is prob a bigger factor in So cal than it is in other parts of the country  here in NE it's less sun to wory about as much as humidity.  I was taping Pencilgrass (check em out) in early August in CT and when I checked my levels on the JB3 half way through the set i had a ton of condensation behind the screen.  It kinda freaked me out!!  but didn't seem to have any effect.  After letting the unit sit on the back of my imac for a day everything was dry and workin' fine...   recrdings came out great as well.

[stigs]

i was thinking about adding something like this to my rig, what do you use? those novelty umbrella hats?

[bhtoque]

you can get a stroler umbrella at most toy/baby stores. They have clamps so you can mount it right to your stand.

JAson

[stigs]

you can get a stroler umbrella at most toy/baby stores. They have clamps so you can mount it right to your stand.

JAson

AH great idea never thought of that!

+T

[jdh263]

wal-mart has umbrellas that are made for those folding chairs that work great for covering mics.

they can be found in the sporting goods section for about 5 dollars

[JAH]

nice things about the tours-r-us strooler umbrellas is they are a good size in diameter unless you have guns but, not too many guns these days....




edit...did he say strooler ;-)  boy, I say boy needs a spell check...

[Busman Audio]

The wal mart umbrellas are called Chair brellas and they are great and easy to use, they even detach from the clamp so you can leave them off unless it rains then quickly insert them on the pole when needed.

[tonyvt]

Umbrellas work great until it really starts to rain hard and then you end up with a tape with annoying rain pitter-patter. I have had resonable success
putting a towell on top of the unbrella to dampen the rain sound. This usually works out well until the towell gets soaked and starts to get heavy.

[ScottT]

I paid around $10 at ToysRUs for a Radio Flyer umbrella.  Works great!