[AG-TECH] Equiptment ideas?

[Matthew Leszczenski]

I have also considered USB based devices, such as the iChat, and the Duet.
They do not have a very good range for microphone pickup from my experience
with them, they are good for very close range (~ 4 ft, after that it doesn't
pick up anything very well).  Unless do you know of a USB microphone that
has a better range, and gain, so it can pickup sound decently in an open
area from more then 6-8 ft?

 

Matthew Leszczenski

 - Technical Assistant and Eagle Scout

 - Undergraduate NSSA Major @ RIT

 - Collaboration Technology Developer @ RIT Research Computing department

 

From: Jimmy Miklavcic [mailto:jimmy.miklavcic at utah.edu] 
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 3:32 PM
To: Matthew Leszczenski; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Equiptment ideas?

 

Did you consider the USB mics, Duet PCS or ClearOne iChat series? Each mic
does its own EC.

 

Jimmy

 

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From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf
Of Matthew Leszczenski
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 12:20 PM
To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: [AG-TECH] Equiptment ideas?

Hello all,

                One of my current projects is a public AG kiosk-like setup,
in which people will be able to walk up to the node, choose a stream and
start to talk directly with that stream. The area is about a 12' X 12'
square area, with drop-tile ceiling, it will consist of 1x HD camera, 1x DV
camera, 2x 52" HD LCD TV's, 1x high quality microphone, some sort of
directional speakers, and an echo cancellation system.  It seems that I
would only need one microphone input for this project. However I have mostly
worked with the ClearOne XAP400, which is a dual line-in echo cancellation
system, and the XAP does not seem to come in a single line-in version. Is
there some other echo cancellation unit that people would suggest for a
setup like this? Or have I missed a single line-in version of the XAP? Also
any other suggestions for the node would be nice to hear, in case others
have ideas that haven't been thought of, or others are thinking of building
a node such like this.

 

 

As always all help is appreciated!

 

Matthew Leszczenski

 - Technical Assistant and Eagle Scout

 - Undergraduate NSSA Major @ RIT

 - Collaboration Technology Developer @ RIT Research Computing department

 

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