Summer concerts are coming up and I need to make my mics work again
There have been lots of awesome advise in this thread. Currently I am most keen on just having SP installing the low sens mod but am unsure if this will limit me too much - i.e. will the low sens mod make me unable to record the more quiet gigs? I understand that the noise floor will go up when using the low sens mod, but am unsure how distinct this will be. Anyone has experience?
Alternatives would be purchasing CA14 mics (if available? they are not on website), but I understand that these less stealthy than the SP-CMC8 mics. How much bigger are the CA14 mics?
CA preamp also sound like a good alternative, except for the fact that the unit is rather bulky compared to the SP bat.box.
Finally someone mentioned a cheap 3-wire bat.box running modded mics. How would this perform compared to using the CA preamp and how small would such a 3-wire bat.box be?
I should mention that I need a rig that would allow me to record very loud bands (but occasionally also acoustic gigs). Should I be looking at alternatives with phantom power? Stealth-ability is also a big issuse to me.