A club I record in regularly has made me an interesting offer. They will waive their new $50 SBD fee in perpetuity, but in exchange, I need to help them out by providing some kind of installed rig.
I already have 35ft XLRs mounted in the venue to the spot where I put my mics; when I go, I just slap my mics up, plug in, and run.
In terms of something that will a) sound good, b) be easy to use and c) not cost me a ton of money, it seems that installing some CA-14s would be the best move. They are certainly good enough that I'd use them myself from time to time.
My theory would be to mount them up in this spot, then run CA-14>stereo mini to dual XLR adapter>my current cables>dual XLR to mini adapter.
Most people who would likely use this are going to be video guys whose net knowledge of audio is using a Zoom. It seems to me that the advantage of using the CA mics is they can run off of plug-in power, or I suppose I can also provide a battery box.
The obvious risks I see are:
- Not balanced. An issue, but it's like a 30ft cable run. Not the end of the world. Also not really for my use.
- Some idiot shows up and sends P48 through the cables and fries them.
The other option of course is to just use something else that's an inexpensive P48 mic. There there are many options, though I'm not sure the options are necessarily better than the CA-14s sound-wise. That'd also probably need a pre. I have no familiarity with normal non-portable pres, but I assume there is something cheap that runs off AC power that I could get?