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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">While I'm keen to maximise our spend I'd have to draw a line at sing star microphones. The sound from them is pathetic.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Euan.</p></div><br><div id="fenix-reply-header"><p>On 23/04/2012 15:37 James Bromberger wrote:<br></p></div><div id="fenix-quoted-body">
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On 23/04/2012 2:36 PM, Nick Bannon wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:10:34AM +0800, James Bromberger wrote:
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<pre wrap="">For the speaker each week, we're looking at:
* One Shure SLX (L4 freq) Instrument pack - $600
* One Countryman Head-mounted mic - $525
For the audience mic:
* One Shure SLX (L4 freq) receiver and SM58: $680
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<pre wrap="">Well, the nice thing is that Kosmic has stock of this kind of stuff, and
we could pick this up at an hour's notice. We're also still interested
in a portable PA amplified speaker, hopefully a little less scratchy
than my old ghetto blaster.
Over $1000 for a single channel of wireless audio routing, though... does
seem a bit gold-plated power-cord-y. Does anyone have an example of a
comparable setup?</pre>
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There is a cheaper head mounted mic option that isnt as
compact/invisible. Just to point out, this is what we used at PyCon
so you can see (and hear) the devices in action in those videos.<br>
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<pre wrap="">With this as the comparison, we can afford to spend a few hundred dollars
to trial an alternative system for one or more speakers or one or more
audience mikes.
Traditional FM stage mikes, for example? Bluetooth class 1? DECT?
Anything producing a normal mixable audio signal in the form of XLR or
audio jack at line in or microphone levels.
Does anyone have some handy SingStar wireless USB microphones? They
might show up in lsusb as simple USB audio devices, ID 1415:0020.</pre>
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The only complication with these other approaches is that, when/if
we have multiple parallel streams one day, we'll be limited in our
approach. We know that with this proposed solution, there are 12
clear channels to use side by side: that's 6 streams of 2 wireless
mics per stream (presenter, audience).<br>
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<pre wrap="">James - I'd like to have a test audio loopback on the new laptops,
can they pass through audio from such a device (or a simple microphone)
through Pulseaudio with no significant latency? (Someone else might have
that setup already)
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Bringing one of the new laptops with me tonight to the Moon & 6.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I can't quite bring myself to nod yet. It's nice to have the high end
equipment as a fallback, but we're losing out on the functionality of
the extra audio channel or two, and having a value-for-money system that
it would make sense to build again.</pre>
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I feel that, since we have the grant money, we can afford to do
this. We will still have our Boundary mics, and any handheld wired
mics we want, plus the audience wireless mic. We've never needed two
wireless headsets thus far, despite changing our format around - and
if we do, we can alway use the cheapy one we already have for the
secondary presenter???<br>
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James<br>
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