I taped Lotus on Fri at the Recher in Towson, MD and got a decent sounding tape but too much crowd noise. The venue is a relatively smallish, 630 capacity, rectangular shaped room without a balcony, and with two large stacks next to the stage (maybe 5' high, sitting on the floor I believe). Very high volume venue, and I've taped there several times and gotten varying results, from okay to pretty good. The taping section is along the left wall, about midway back, behind a small SBD area. I set up my stand 9' high with MK4s in DIN, with the axis between the MK4s pointed generally towards the point between the two stacks. Here is the link:
http://www.archive.org/details/lotus2009-02-13.mk4.flac16In the past at the Recher, I've flown my stand higher at 11' usually, so that the mics are higher than the top of the stacks, with the hopes that it would decrease the crowd noise. Here is a show I did this way (with KM184 in DIN):
http://www.archive.org/details/ccope2009-01-27.km184.flac16There is still significant crowd noise in this one too though, and I thought it might be due to the mics being a few feet above the top of the speakers and that they were getting 'less SPL' (I doubt this is the proper way to describe it), therefore for Lotus I dropped the stand to 9' but the crowd noise seems worse.
Next time, are there any things I can do to improve my recording, like decreasing the angle (from 90 degrees) or just going A-B and point at the stack closest to the left-sided taping section? Unfortunately, I don't have MK41s so I can't try out hypers.
Any critique, comments, or suggestions would be great, thanks!