[Nottingham] [Talk] This Wed 15/03/2006 - Ubuntu and Mac OS X

[Karl Ryan]

I know a little about audio and recording. What you need for an event like
this is a clip-on lapel mic, preferably a radio mic, with a digital output.
The reason why it has to be a clip-on is so that the mic picks up as much of
the speaker's voice as possible. If you use a standard type of mic then it
picks up all the ambient noise from the whole room and it just sounds crap.
The reason why you should use a digital output is to eliminate the
signal/noise problem (that hissing noise you get when you plug in your mic
into a cheap sound card).

The recording device can be a PC or Mac with a digital input. No special
equipment needed here. You can use Audacity which is released under I think
the GNU license (yay) to record and do post-recording editing and produce an
mpeg file. 

The only problem is that the mics are VERY expensive so as to be
prohibitive.

The alternative is to buy a fairly decent microphone with a good response
for about £100 designed with a base and frame for a single speaker and sit
the speaker at a table or have what looks like a telephonist's headset. A
decent headset is also quite expensive.

Essentially how good your recording is depends a lot on how good (and
expensive) your equipment is.

-- 
Karl Ryan


> From: Martin Garton <martin at stupids.org>
> Reply-To: <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:53:55 +0000
> To: <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] [Talk] This Wed 15/03/2006 - Ubuntu and Mac OS X
> 
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:45 +0000, Andy Davidson wrote:
>> Martin wrote:
>>> 15 Mar 2006 - Talk - Ubuntu and Mac OS X - Joshua Lock
>> 
>> Hey, Martin --
>> 
>> How about trying to podcast Nottingham LUG talks ?  This LUG gets a good
>> mix of talkers.
> 
> We had a brief go at this in the past but for whatever reason the
> recording turned out rubbish.  Perhaps we need someone who knows their
> audio kit stuff to get involved.
> 
> -- 
> Martin.
> 
> 
> 
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