Before the usual cavalcade of ridiculous pictures of giant sombreros, etc. (as funny as they are), please for a moment consider my subject line.
I have found that sometimes, it simply makes more sense to run a rig I can mount to myself... Reasons include:
1. It sounds better to go upfront and a lowpro stand is either not permitted or unworkable for a variety of reasons.
2. I cannot arrive early enough to get a proper spot to set up.
3. I am at the show alone and would like to be able to go to the bathroom/get beer/move without asking someone to watch my gear.
I'm sure there are others.
So anyway, I was thinking about whether anyone has devised a good hat rig for an open taping situation. My not-open-taping hat rig is fine, but if I were explicitly open taping, it's not really ideal, either.
All I can really come up with is either putting some loops on the outside of a baseball cap and putting my 4021s in them, though this doesn't provide an ideal pattern since it would basically be A-B. Or, if I wanted a good pattern, take the step of sticking a T-bar onto a hat, which seems problematic for several reasons, not least of which being weight.
So there are two things I want to know - if you've basically done the baseball hat with external loops thing, I'd be curious to know how you did it and what you used for loops; AND, if I am just not being creative enough, please let me know if there are other good ways to do this.
Again, this is for situations where stealth is not required and concealment is not an issue.