Sometimes, however impractical it seems, it is useful or at least tempting to get a low-noise large-diaphragm condenser (LDC) microphone pair outside. Various set-ups have been tried over the years by nature recordists, often taking advantage of a pair of the affordable and low-noise…

As live music goes, this was about as easy as it gets for the sound-engineer: the band (Rattlebox) decided on a long weekend in the south of Spain in May 2019, to play a largely acoustic gig at a bar and to busk for…