DAY TWO: Home, James

LOCATION SOUND TIP* OF THE DAY:  SOUND IS SEXY!

We all know that rain sucks.  Besides waging genocide against earthworms and causing all of that green stuff to grow (mold?  leafy mold?) it has an inherent property to it that is especially deadly to electronics: it's made of water.  Recorders, mixers and cameras don't particularly like water, but they're pretty easy to cover from our atmosphere's "Death from Above" campaign against us.  The real problem is microphones.  A long-tested technique for protecting shotgun/boom mics from rain dates back to soldiers crossing water with their rifles: put a condom on it.  Seriously, a regular, everyday condom.  Preferably non-lubricated, of course.  However, not all microphones were created equal.  Lavs in a condom are like a Tic Tac in a whale's mouth, and regardless of how awesome Lectrosonics' waterproof transmitters are, the elements in the mic itself can short out if they get wet.  Luckily, the nice people in the medical industry had some down time and thinktanked this problem extensively (hey, cancer will still be there in the morning).  Their solution...

Despite being kind of creepy, these will work to protect your smaller buddies from getting, um...wet.  Admittedly, they're a little noisy if you don't secure them well, but it's better than shorting out a mic mid-take, or, like, at all.

BTdubs, the people of Oklahoma are prepared for anything.  Example: in the EXTREMELY LIKELY case that the temperature dropped to -60F, you'd probably want to know, right?  Well, in Oklahoma, they will!  That bird might be fucked, though.

* ha!  Tip!