The venue I'm recording in tomorrow, Cake Shop in NYC, is one of the worst setups I have seen.
Room is extremely long and extremely narrow. The ceiling is about 12-15ft high, except over the stage, where it is about 7.5ft.
The bar runs along the entire left wall.
On the right wall are seats. There is nowhere to put a stand.
In the past, I have taped mics at an area along the right wall where there is an indentation, which basically puts them 6ft in front of the right stack.
However, this doesn't work perfectly, either, since they don't mic all instruments. So, you often lose a lot of whatever instrument is on the left since the sound is coming out of only amps. (I am recording amplified rock music).
This night I will not have the option of using the indentation, so I'm thinking of trying the following:
Put DPA 4061 at maximum spread I can (about 3ft) on the low ceiling over the stage. The area I am talking about would be about 1-2 ft in front of the actual stage, but slightly behind or parallel with the little PA stacks (oh, and the PA stacks are at eye level, and not very good).
Obviously my concern is that the mics being slightly behind the stacks will be a problem, too, though I don't know how much of one since (a) they're omnis and (b) they'll be picking up the monitors.
The other, possibly more "elegant" solution is to do this the old fashioned way and wear the 4061s HRTF, and stand up close.
Thoughts?