More or less what I thought. Thanks, it must have been you who mentioned this. I think it's something we should point out to the developer. If it's a design feature, I think it's a mistake. AFter all, if you're leaving speakers enabled on your main output device when the mic is active, you're not going to do a lot for your on-air sound. If you have a degree in sound engineering, I'm sure you know that. If your speakers are set to a volume which is sufficiently high to create feedback, then the wave form shape will change regardless of whether or not your microphone is directly pointed at the speakers. Also, if your microphone is omnidirectional, it won't make any difference whether you point it specifically at the speakers. A unidirectional microphone, such as a cardioid or hypercardoid microphone will predominantly, but not exclusively, pick up sound from a specific direction. There again, you could have a bidirectional microphone which, as the name implies, will de tect sound from two directions, front and back. Where things start to get interesting is when you're dealing with stereo unidirectional microphones. Then again, you may have microphones whose optimum responsiveness is of a frequency range best suited for a specific musical instrument, such as a violin, cello or flute. Naturally, in situations such as that of a typical broadcast studio, you wouldn't be using one of the latter. Some broadcasters use microphones attached to a goose-neck which can either be mounted to the desk itself or, as is the case with the studio I personally use, the ceiling. The reason for that is vibration absorption. We also have what are commonly referred too as "Table Microphones". This type of microphone is usually, but not always, omnidirectional. It very much depends upon the budget of the studios. Ours are actually a group of 4 microphones located around a guest table. Then, and this is where Macs come into the equation, you can have eit her dynamic or electret microphones. The dynamic microphones are typically unsuitable for use in the DJay Mac application because of the fact that there's not sufficient signal. And that, more than anything, is the reason why I have decided not to use DJay for Mac's microphone support. So what I am now planning to do is to use my Griffin imix and route the main output of DJay to that device, leaving the internal sound card free for VoiceOver. Unless you know of a technique which I currently don't, it would be a little difficult to use DJay without VoiceOver if you have no vision. Also, I find that I cannot use Braille only because when various elements of DJay are displayed, the Braille display isn't showing me exactly what has highlight. If it would, I'd be able to do without the second output. That said, it's handy to have it because it also lets me use the main internal card for queuing if that should be necessary.
Anyway, I'm waffling. Shame about DJay, but there we are. I have 3 options available to me. DJay, (if I can find a Shoutcast plugin which will talk to NiceCast configured as a Shoutcast server on a dedicated network trunk. The other two option are Windows, so I won't discuss them here. <--- Gordon Smith ---> If you wish to contact me privately, please use E-Mail in the first instance, before you try the below. Please also observe time differences. I prefer telephone calls by prior arrangement where possible. E-Mail: <[email protected]> Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> ------------------------------ On 30 Oct 2012, at 15:54, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: There is no work around. just turn on the mic with shift m then activate qn (quick nav) then right arrow to the slider, interact with down and right arrow and hit up arrow to bring the mic up. It would be nice if the the darned thing could remember your setting but I can see why the dev did not make it so. He and his team surmise you are doing this in an open mic setting and feedback is very possible if someone is an idiot and points the mic toward the speakers. Iv'e been that idiot and i have my degree in sound engineering lol! <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
