[AG-TECH] Microphone recommendations

[John I Quebedeaux Jr]

Jeremy,

My 2 cents from experience is that wireless mics are an extreme pain  
to maintain due to battery consumption and also to control the  
appropriate use and placement and audio... balance? If at all  
possible, wire them for lower maint. particularly if they receive a  
lot of use. Wireless is much more expensive as well, but they are  
convenient (it would seem) until you begin dealing with batteries.   
Also, if they're wireless and the mics are not in a fixed point then  
you have audio issues to deal with with microphone placement-  
including the famous picking up a wireless mic and holding it like a  
"StarTrek" communicator... <shudder>. Perhaps it's just me, but i  
like it if my users can NOT physically move the microphones that I've  
so carefully balanced for the acoustics in the room they are in.

I feel your pain on the wires though and in particular the microphone  
situation. Newer rooms here they don't want to have "fixed" mics on  
the tables and the tables themselves aren't fixed either (i.e. can  
change room config in a few minutes). I know that Jason Bell had  
demonstrated at SC Global his success at incorporating ceiling  
microphones into his room infrastructure. Perhaps some audio folks  
can comment on microphone placement and installation a bit for new  
installations.

-John Q.

-- 
John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.; Louisiana State University
Computer Manager LBRN; 131 Life Sciences Bldg.
e-mail: johnq at lsu.edu; web: http://lbrn.lsu.edu
phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597


On Feb 1, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Jeremy Mann wrote:

> I've been assigned to design and install AG systems in several
> existing conference rooms for different departments here on campus.
> One design they all agree on, is the lack of or sparse use of cables.
> The one portable AG node I built several years ago is not pleasing to
> the eye at all because of all the cables.
>
> I'm interested to hear if anyone else has built or is using wireless
> table top microphones, or  a combination of wireless microphones with
> built-in echo cancellation.
>
> Any brand recommendations?
>
> -- 
> Jeremy Mann
> jeremy at biochem.uthscsa.edu
>
> University of Texas Health Science Center
> Bioinformatics Core Facility
> http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu
> Phone: (210) 567-2672
>

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