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We had issues a few years ago in a tropical environment on a picture with sweaty actors and the COSS-11's would fill with sweat and spritz after a while in a scene. We tried various product to wrap around the mic to absorb the water. We ended up with a strip of SHAMWOW around the mic just below the capsule. Works great! It is always in my kit!

 

Whit

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We had issues a few years ago in a tropical environment on a picture with sweaty actors and the COSS-11's would fill with sweat and spritz after a while in a scene. We tried various product to wrap around the mic to absorb the water. We ended up with a strip of SHAMWOW around the mic just below the capsule. Works great! It is always in my kit!

 

Whit

Shamwow for the win.

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In this situation if you clean the skin with some make up removal liquid or medical alcohol and place a piece of your preferred tape, and then place the mic rig on top of that tape it will last longer.

Also helps if you turn the mic upside down and create some sweat barriers with a thin fabric elastic band(the same used in theatre head mount rigs), applying knots of that along the mic cable prevents sweat coming straight to the capsule.

PS: once in a live theatre show, an actor was really heavy on cocaine and he sweated a lot, our skin colored sennheiser MKE's turned green after 6 weeks!

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