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Wind microphone - Yes or No? ? ? ? ? ? ?
27 July 2026 · 6 min · 3K views
What this video covers
Sven Yrvind is preparing a small boat for a high-latitude cruise spanning both equatorial and Southern Ocean conditions, and the video covers two practical preparation tasks.▶ 2:01 First, he tests packing a survival suit and dry bags — a 20-litre and a 35-litre — into the boat, working out how to load them single-handed and stow them forward.▶ 1:24 Second, he inventories cold-weather layering gear: four upper-body insulating layers, three lower-body layers, a balaclava from Akrema of Norway, and foot coverings, totalling roughly 3.5 kilograms for the upper-body kit alone, weighed on a scale he has owned since 1971.▶ 3:35 The title's question about a wind microphone is addressed briefly at the end: Yrvind asks viewers whether the Shure MV88 USBC microphone with a windscreen is worth the cost for recording on the water, where wind noise is a problem in his workshop-based setup.▶ 4:49 No conclusion is reached — he solicits audience advice on the purchase.▶ 5:36
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