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How I Record Steelpan and Why I Use this Technique - Mike Stand Selections

  

DPA Microphones Attached to Two Floor Stands, Improvised Platform, Skiffle Steel Orchestra, TrinidadDPA Microphones Attached to Two Floor Stands, Improvised Platform, Skiffle Steel Orchestra, Trinidad Mike Stand Selections:

I have several microphone stand setups:

  • I can use two ordinary tripod stands, preferably with "junior booms" aimed straight up to get the microphones over people's heads. 
  • I can use a single tripod stand and junior boom with one or two extra 5/8 inch 30 inch long stand pipe sections threaded at both ends, together with Atlas Sound 5/8 inch couplings.  The stand sections were salvaged from old stands, and I had a machinist thread the unthreaded end with a 5/8-27 thread to fit the couplings.

    I set this up to look like a "T" with one of the extensions below the junior boom, which is set horizontal.  If the band is small, I tape the microphones to the end of the boom pipe, about 24 inches apart.  If the band is large, I use the other extension as a part of the "T" making it somewhere around 60 inches long.  I tape the microphones somewhere  about 48 inches apart.
  • I have a On Stage SB9600 Tripod Boom Stand, which, when used straight up with a junior boom at the top can get the microphones close to 10 feet in the air if necessary.  Again, I will use the extension stand section to make the length of the "T" longer than 48 inches when recording a large or widely spaced band.