What It Takes/What I'm Taking

Sydney

Final Equipment check and test before heading up to Darwin in the morning.

Here’s the picture of my equipment case.

And the list follows- all but 7 items listed below are in the case and in this picture. There will be a prize direct from Arnhem Land for anyone who can name those 7 items! (Unless there are hundreds of you, in which case I’ll hold a lottery):

The “Big” Stuff

• Shure FP33 Field Mixer (Huge thanks to Shure for their invaluable support of this project)
• Korg MR1000 High Definition Field Recorder
• Apple MacBook Pro (and charger)
• Edirol FA101 Audio Capture
• AudioTechnica M50 Headphones
• Seven Star 100W step down converter
• Furman SS6block power conditioner
• Gtech mini 250G hard drive
• Samsung Acer dual band cell phone (and charger)
• Glasses (!)
• Wesco Heavy duty luggage cart 

Microphones

• Shure VP88 stereo microphone
• Shure SM11 Lavalier microphones (2)
• Shure VP64 microphones (2) 

Cables, Adapters and Batteries

• 18 in. 1/4 to XLR (2) – to connect recorder to mixer
• 3ft. XLRs for mics (2)
• 18 in. 5 pin stereo to dual XLR (for VP88)
• 1 ft. USB A/mini (for Gtech)
• 1 ft. USB dual connect A/A A/mini (just in case)
• 1 ft. Firewire (for Edirol)
• Sonnet Firewire 400/800 adapter (for Edirol)
• 2 ft USB A/B (for connecting computer to printer, if necessary)
• MAC DVI/VGA adapter (because it’s small and you never know)
• Ipod USB
• 6 in. 1/4 signal splitter (in case of dubbing needs)
• 6 in. mini signal splitter (dubbing again)
• 2 ft. mini stereo/RCA (dubbing again)
• 6ft. CAT5 ethernet cable (to stay connected to the world whenever possible)
• 1 Toslink/mini
• XLR to 1/4 adapters (2)
• 1/4 to RCA adapters (2)
• 3 prong US/Australian outlet adapters (2)
• 2 prong US/Australian outlet adapters (5)
• MAC charger outlet adapters
• Standard 3 prong adapters (3)
• Sanyo Enoloop AA rechargables (18 – for recorder – 2 full sets + 2 extras)
• 9V 250ma rechargables (4 – for FP33 – 2 full sets)
• 9V alkalines (4 – as safeties)
• 6V lithiums (5 – for VP88)
• Eneloop Chargers (2 for charging 8 batteries at a time)
• Powerex Stealth Charger (for charging 4 9V batteries at a time)
• 2 spare fuses each for mixer and recorder

The “Little” Stuff

• Ipod Chromatic and earbuds
• Olympus D520 zoom camera
• MacBook rescue disks
• 8 in. mini bungies (8)
• small needlenose pliers
• mini flathead and Phillips screwdrivers
• mini maglight (+ spare bulbs)
• 3-power mini magnifying glass
• toothpaste & spare toothbrush
• spoon
• 1 pound of Oren’s Beowolf blend espresso (ground)
• mini stovetop espresso pot
• mechanical pencils, leads, erasers
• extra pens
• international driver’s license
• folder containing all travel information & visas etc.
• photocopy of  driver’s license and passport
• Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion table
• Philip Levine poem – “What Work Is”
• Japanese language study books