Anyone have recomendations on configurations that work best in a loud club.....you know, one of those places where people show up for God knows what reason and really could care less about the music and run their mouths and laugh the whole damn time.......
In addition to the recommendations already made, obviously, the closer to the source you can get the better.
If the club is running a mono mix (usually) and you can get your rig setup close to a stack you'll be better off then being DFC and surrounded by a lot of chatter.
I tend to have this problem...the band I have been taping seems to only play in long narrow bars that and coffee shops that force them to setup diagonally in a corner on one end of the bar/coffee shop.
What I am running in to is that setting up close is the only option, but also that means I am so close that one stack is invariably pointed in some way that makes a stereo recording of a mono sound setup a problem. I have been able to make some pretty good recordings this way, but am worrying the whole time about my mic configuration. I haven't tried running really close to one of the stacks, but I don't know why.
Does anyone know of why this would be a bad idea?
Since I have been helping the band setup some I have been able to point the stacks in the direction I wish, but that doesn't really help in a long narrow venue where they setup on a diagonal in a corner.