My Current (as of 2015) Orchestral Recording Equipment, in the Skiffle Panyard in TrinidadSummary of my Current Recording Equipment.

This is a list of the equipment which makes up my basic, extremely portable simple stereo recording kit:

• A pair of DPA 4061 lavalier microphones with available windscreens and extension miniature coaxial microphone cables. (Now a pair of their 4661 rugged lavaliers, and the Rycote windscreens)
  
  
• A Core Sound Mic 2496 microphone preamp and analog to digital converter capable of directly connecting to and powering the DPA microphones.  (Now out of production).

• A Denon-Marantz (now Marantz Professional) DM661 handheld recorder (Again now also out of production) The
  "S/PDIF" digital output of the mic preamp is connected to the digital input of the recorder.  Both the preamp and the recorder are set for 44.1 KHz sample rate, 24 bit recording.
  
  
• An external headphone amplifier, also made by Core Sound, called the Headline to use with the Marantz recorder..  An external amplifier is desirable if your setup is close to the band.  The maximum volume from the handheld recorder headphone jack is inadequate to drive your headphones loud enough to tell what sound is coming from the recorder and what is leaking past the earmuffs on the headphones.  You can in all likelihood find far less expensive headphone amplifiers with enough gain and power.  The external headphone amplifier is unnecessary with the Zoom F6.  Its headphone output is capable of more volume than you'd ever want. 
  
  
• Now a Zoom F6 6-channel 32-bit portable recorder used instead of the Marantz and the Core Sound preamp, or in addition to them for redundancy.
  
  
• A homemade microphone "splitter" and battery supply for the DPA microphones.
  
  
• A pair of Senheisser HD280 Pro headphones.  There are other professional headphones available, with varying performance.  Get a pair that you like and are used to.  They must be "closed back" to keep out the direct sound of the band. 
  
  I strongly recommend against any form of "ear buds", most of them are horrid, and none of them provide much isolation from ambient sound.  I also don't recommend "Beats".  While the built in amplifier may make them plenty loud, the frequency response has a boosted bass, making it impossible to truly determine the balance of your recording when using them.