Topic: Setup of mics for stealthing

[Teen Age Riot]

Another option that has not been mentioned yet, would be to make a stack tape by standing in line with one of the P.A. stacks, relatively close to the stage. That should give you less room reverb and possibly less crowd noise. I prefer the more up-front sound of stack tapes, and that's how I record 99% of the time when I'm stealthing, but tastes vary, of course...

[fandelive]

embarassed to ask,.... I'm not so familiar with that mic line. are these small omnis, or cardioids?

SP-BMC-xx are omnis. ("B" for binaural)
SP-CMC-xx are cardioids. ("C" for cardioid)

[spyder9]

BlueEyes17el,

SP-CMC-2 > SP-SPSB-6 > JB3.  I ran almost the exact same setup, except I was using Giant Squids mini cardioids.  Have your taped anything with this setup yet?  If you haven't, you may hear a small beeping noise in your recording.  The beep will be about every 10 seconds or so.  That'is from the hard drive spinning in the JB3.  You'll need a Denecke AD-20 mic preamplifier between the battery box and the JB3.  The preamp will raise the recording to line-level, which will eliminate the beep.

Just friendly advice based on experience.  Welcome to TS!  T+

[thierryhenry]

don't be embarressed, heck a lot of guys on this board tape DMB

Very true, ha.

By the way, Hanson butchered Radiohead's Optimistic...

[BlueEyes17el]

BlueEyes17el,

SP-CMC-2 > SP-SPSB-6 > JB3.  I ran almost the exact same setup, except I was using Giant Squids mini cardioids.  Have your taped anything with this setup yet?  If you haven't, you may hear a small beeping noise in your recording.  The beep will be about every 10 seconds or so.  That'is from the hard drive spinning in the JB3.  You'll need a Denecke AD-20 mic preamplifier between the battery box and the JB3.  The preamp will raise the recording to line-level, which will eliminate the beep.

Just friendly advice based on experience.  Welcome to TS!  T+

No I haven't taped yet. But I've listened to a bunch of recordings with the same setup, and there weren't any beeps. I should get the mics next week so I'll test them out at home.