The other night I recorded Arlo Guthrie at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, NY. Now Arol allows recording but the venue doesn't seem to. So this is what I did. I wore a cowboy shirt with a two chest pockets, put a microphone in each pocket, and held a OCM R-44 between my legs. I cut two holes on the inside of the pockets so the cables could run under my shirt to the deck. Like this only the capsule of the mic stuck out of the pocket. The shirt was sliver and was the same color as the mics. At first I kept my jacket on, unzipped, and covering the mics. When the lights went down I opened the jacket to expose the microphones but left it on. I have the R-44 bag so I could close that and hide the display light. This venue is old and was built for very little people. You sit leg to leg with your neighbors and honestly I don't think the woman sitting next to me knew that I was taping. She was aware that something strange was going on down by my feet but the mics were totally off her radar. I am sure she wondered why I didn't clap but not my issue.
The first set came out good. I basically hit record then covered the deck up so the levels were set low. There was some user error for the second set and it was lost or may have never been recorded I am not sure. Before this show I had never used the R-44 with out a pre amp and a/d to power my mics. Things were rushed and I didn't get the chance to do a dry run. Not sure what went wrong during the second set but I know the hold button was not engaged. I guess that is a rookie stealth mistake to make. I was happy to get the first set and pull off stealthing with this rig because I have always wanted to try. Not sure I liked the experience, too stressful.
That's it ladys and gentlemen. You can stealth with LD's. It was actually easy to get DIN in the tiny venue. At home where I wasn't smashed between two people the shirt allows for a natural NOS. When I upload the set to etree I will throw a link up.