That sounds like the best option for mics in mho. On Jan 30, 2013 10:48 AM, "chris kluka" <[email protected]> wrote:
> My honest simple suggestion would be to have 2 mic's plugged into one > sound card. > > One cardioid facing the presenter and one omni in the center of the room. > > As far as cost goes, its just the cost of 1 extra microphone. > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> With presentations, I think >1 mic is overkill. It's not a big deal for >> either the presenter to rephrase the question before answering (the way >> that's typically solved), or for the recording to just plain miss the >> questions. Getting the questions recorded isn't important enough to way >> overengineer this, IMO. >> >> Ron >> >> On 2013-01-30 10:12, Jim MacKenzie wrote: >> > Hmm, the team speak idea is kind of interesting. It might make it so >> people >> > who cant be at some of the bigger presentations can remote in, but >> still be >> > able to answer questions. >> > There is an option for a marked speaker to make everyone else go quite >> when >> > they speak. >> > And as a non-profit we qualify for the 512 user licence. >> > >> > >> > The only thing with the 1 mic idea is we would have to get presenters to >> > say the question before they answer it, and not just start answering it. >> > Otherwise it may not make sense. Ive >> > seen presenters do this, but we not always have professional presenters. >> > >> > Video is doable, we can easily set up screen recording as well, so if >> > someone is showing code or something on the projector we could have >> > seperate video of just that. >> > >> > >> > >> > Now, this is assuming that we have a presentation in the future from >> > someone worth recording >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > For talks, we'd only need a single mic, since there's only one person >> > > (who matters). >> > > >> > > I think video is important, since I like to use the whiteboard when >> > > teaching/lecturing. >> > > >> > > Ron >> > > >> > > On 2013-01-30 08:27, Ace Tunes wrote: >> > > > We would need to make sure to get a room/area mic (maybe two >> considering >> > > > how big our meeting space is, our classrooms at UCN weren't much >> bigger >> > > and >> > > > we were running up to four area mics). As for the camera; it might >> even >> > > be >> > > > worth looking at the option of leaving it out, from my experience I >> found >> > > > that the classes without video stream went smoothest. When it comes >> to >> > > > recording it, software would be all we would need, but I don't know >> of >> > > any >> > > > free software that records sessions like that..... hmmm.... unless, >> I >> > > just >> > > > used teamspeak for the first time the other day, and I know it has >> the >> > > > option to record, but can we also, from the server side, force it >> so that >> > > > only one person's mic can be live? If so that might be an option, I >> am >> > > sure >> > > > we could host one on the sksp servers that would be turned on for >> > > meetings >> > > > only. With that we could use one piece of software to stream AND >> record. >> > > We >> > > > also could look at a Walkie-Talkie style application, though I >> don't know >> > > > of any free ones, that would allow every user to participate in the >> > > > meeting; one that we used, that I am particularly fond of, is >> Elluminate. >> > > > Elluminate offers one way (editable) mic chatter, IRC style chat, >> and if >> > > we >> > > > really want video chat, as well as a whiteboard system. If we could >> find >> > > a >> > > > free version, or a REALLY cheap version, of that kind of thing it >> might >> > > be >> > > > worth it. >> > > > >> > > > Meako >> > > > >> > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Ron <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > In your opinion, what would it take to record/stream talks? One >> mic (we >> > > > > can probably get for free), an Internet connection we have, >> ustream is >> > > > > free, I'm sure we could find an unused camera. What else would we >> need? >> > > > > I imagine software of some sort, I can't think of much else. >> > > > > >> > > > > Ron >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> > > > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> > > > Archive: >> https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> > > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> > > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlEJTcIACgkQ2t2zxlt4g/SHRACgpxvtcYhpnpJx9bcS4Ks4B6/J >> aW8AoJOJ9iTZIJD7jA4xJVPGrGjM/GqJ >> =C8k4 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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