(Trying to record a music band outdoors)
Please give me some advice-
I'm thinking of digitally recording an outdoor musical performance in
late June 2008, and I am worried that some microphones are subject to
failure, or at least an unusual performance of some kind, if the
microphones - or the wire hookups - sit around baking in the sun. If
the weather is in the mid 90s F, in the shade, and even worse in direct
sunlight, should I take precautions like shading the microphones in the
shade of an umbrella or parasol? Or am I worrying about something
that's not worrying about?
I won't have access to AC current, as I'll be running off batteries;
that also means there isn't going to be an amplifying system, and the
performers will just sit around strumming their strings, or banging
their drums, or whatever. I figured that decibel alterations will be
available to me during post production editing. (Yes, there will also
be some cameras around, but I don't want to use their microphones as
they may be around 30 or 40 feet away from the performers.)
Which microphones are best for this sort of situation? I haven't
bought them yet, and noticed that some microphones are very expensive.
My budget is $800 for microphones alone (at about $150 apiece) but I
would like to divvy that up between two separate recording systems,
where each music performer has two microphones on stands, and if the
first system fails, the second system is bound to pick something up.
So that made me wonder about something I've read about - 'balanced'
audio lines. I understand that there are 3 wires inside a typical
balanced line, two of them are for audio, and a third wire between them
is a ground. Does anybody actually strip the insulation off those
things so the grounding wire can be grounded better, say, with 8 feet
of a copper rod pounded into the ground? Or is that something nobody
does?
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