Hi. I appreciated the extremes you imagined ;). In our case, we will have three people on our team, plus anyone a can get to hold a boom at the time. I want to be able to do it all with a minimum of set-up, given that one can’t get nature to wait, though when people are singing we have the luxury of more time — but we are still most often at the mercy of the sun, the wind, etc.
The budget is in the ballpark of $3000. We will be going on April 13th, so there isn’t a lot of time to get hard-to-find equipment or to master hard-to-use stuff.
Cheers!
Jesse