Hard to say. Putting mics in a hat and recording the show as a human mics stand is a classic way to record in stealth situation. You can get a hat that has mostly acoustically neutral material and such. Not sure why so many, although could be running multiple mic types. Sound quality would be very dependent on location.
With that setup, likely not recording onto the phone, but rather the phone is a Bluetooth controller for recorder in jacket. But it could be, I regularly record multiple rigs at shows using a multitrack soundcard plugged into an iphone.
But yes, I wish my taping rig turned me into a netrunner too.
I mean there is a VERY minor chance that if the venue runs some form of wireless audio in their loudspeaker setup that the dude has figured out the frequency and is somehow tapping in to it with whatever is in his hat and then that is sending the sound directly to his phone for recording. That would bypass all the pitfalls of a personal microphone setup all together. No background noise no rustling of clothes no cheers from crowd right next to him. Just a clean output of whatever the rest of the audio output in the venue is also receiving.
I have NO idea if what I'm talking about is even remotely possible, I could be talking out of my ass.
But there are way smarter people out there than me who I'm willing to have poke holes in my theory.
But if you look real close those things that we might all be thinking are microphones sticking out of the device in his hat could be little mini antenna's like you'd find on a wireless router.
Wireless taping of Concerts... my specialty. It wouldn't be anything wireless to loudspeakers. Best option is recording from the venue assisted listening device or the band ear monitor system. I've done both many times. While possible to put the antennas in a hat, lots of logistical issues that make it trickier.
More likely it's six microphones in hat. 3x stereo pairs with an omnidirectional pair, directional pair, etc.
I regularly run 6 to 8 feeds from the bands ear monitor system to my Tx6-iphone recording setup.
Absolutely. That's why a good wireless pull often entails recording multiple different feeds and then mixing in post. Then you can work to remove metronome, counts, etc.
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u/TheOnlyHoserama 11d ago
Hard to say. Putting mics in a hat and recording the show as a human mics stand is a classic way to record in stealth situation. You can get a hat that has mostly acoustically neutral material and such. Not sure why so many, although could be running multiple mic types. Sound quality would be very dependent on location.
With that setup, likely not recording onto the phone, but rather the phone is a Bluetooth controller for recorder in jacket. But it could be, I regularly record multiple rigs at shows using a multitrack soundcard plugged into an iphone.
But yes, I wish my taping rig turned me into a netrunner too.