Behold, the Korg D1200. And the Behringer Eurorack MXB1002 And my old stereo. It's a Sharp, I think. If you care, channels 1 and 2 on the Korg are connected to the two condenser microphones. Channel 1 on the mixer is connected to the solo mike, faded entirely to the left. The left output is dumping into channel 3 on the Korg. This lets us use 3 microphones with balanced XLR connectors and phantom power at the same time.
Behold, the microphones. On the right, wearing gold and black, we have what is knows at the church from which we borrowed it as the solo mike. It is a mono, large diaphragm, non-directional condenser microphone, with on board battery power for those times when phantom power is unavailable. :-) It's mounted on an Ultra boom-style microphone stand.
On the left, we have two small(er) diaphragm condenser microphones, also borrowed from the church. Rather than recording from 360 degrees around it, these two only record from the front. They're also mono, but since we have two of them, they record in stereo (one for the left, one for the right). We mounted them on a spreader, which separates them by roughly the same distance as the space between your ears, making for a more life-like sound capture.
One final piece of strange equipment... the Behringer Microamp HA400. Basically, it's an amplifier designed for headphones. It takes a single input, splits it 4 ways, and gives each one an independent volume control. After a few trials, we decided to use in-ear headphone for our monitor system. Aka, iPod headphones. They have shockingly clear sound reproduction (they sound great) they're light, we have a few pairs, and they just worked really well.
One final pile of junk, and we're about set. Notice the window shields. They help block outside noise. They're made of old plywood that I found around the house.
