Topic: MG m300's got wet in the rain

[Church-Audio]

The most importaint thing to remember with mics is this.

1- Unscrew the capsule from the body if possible.
2- If the mics are omni capsules put them on a few layers of paper towel face down meaning the front of the capsule towards the paper towel.

3- For mics like DPA or my mics * omni * place them so that they hang from the cable and the front of the mic is pointing towards the ground. And let air dry.

4- For Cardioid mics we need to see if water has got behind the capsule near the contact pin. If it has you must put them on paper towel with the threads of the capsule facing towards the paper towel and leave it for a few hours then flip the capsule so that the face is facing down towards the paper towel. Flipping them every few hours.

Direct sun exposure is not recommended and the capsule should not get hotter than 100 degrees F..

5- For the preamp its best to drain the water  out by placing them in a mic stand and having the XLR facing towards the ground. You do not want to drain it towards the Center pin of the mic body.

6- For large diaphragm condenser mics.. Air dry only by placing the mic upside down with the capsule facing towards the floor in a stand. If however the body is full of water you want to get that out first by placing them XLR down first.

I would let all mics dry out for no less then 4 days.

Chris

[disco]

i had chris's ca-14 omni's get drenched, I followed his instructions for drying and had no residual issues. I also noticed during the rain that despite getting hit fairly hard it was almost impossible to notice the effect of the rain sonically on the recording.

[JD]

Direct sun exposure is not recommended and the capsule should not get hotter than 100 degrees F..

Really? I would think most any mic flying at a festival in the summer sun is likely to see temps of more than 100 degrees, especially when colored black. 

[mgtaper]

From the Microtech Gefell site:

"The mic’s capsule, designated “M3,” employs a 16mm Mylar diaphragm, coated with gold. The housing is ceramic rather than the more-typical metal; the advantage, derived from the company’s work on test and measurement mics, is that ceramics have less susceptibility to change due to temperature."

This was one of the reasons why I chose m300's.

[Church-Audio]

Direct sun exposure is not recommended and the capsule should not get hotter than 100 degrees F..

Really? I would think most any mic flying at a festival in the summer sun is likely to see temps of more than 100 degrees, especially when colored black. 

100F is just a suggestion.. You can run mics hotter than that but you have to be careful because condenser mics can be damaged by direct sunlight and high temps. Windscreens do help with this issue.

[it-goes-to-eleven]

That's a good reason to opt for silver mics, when there is a choice... Or to wrap your mics in aluminized mylar and then cover them with heat shrink, or umbrella..  At least for the festival tapers.

I'm sure some of those sun baked mics get reaallyyy hot... I wonder what impact that has on sound quality at the time the recording is made?