Summer Camp Budget Recording Studio Help

[Jazz Noise]

Summer camp = kids+outdoors, right?

Grab a H4, look around for offers or deals. That gives you an XY pair suitable for field recording, and it covers the choir type thing. Also functions as a 4 track.

A pair of 57's, and a 58. That govers your acoustic guitars and gives you some spot vocal mics.

If you're thinking "Nice" vocal mic, I'm glad you're not pointing towards a LDC. If you've the cash an RE20 is a great option, and alot more versatile than the SM7 (but you do loose slut pointz).

[brew]

What's the budget?

I'd just get one of those Tascam/Fostex/Zoom handheld recorders with built in mics--you can also use this to record any external mics for the particular situations you mention.

I think that and 1 large diaphragm condenser would do it. Sounds like classical, archive recording, for that I would disagree with Jazz and stick with condensers.