DPA 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, two to eight feet apart, 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 diameter 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.