Last night, I was at the board meeting. It was a frustrating experience, to say the least.
I am hearing impaired. My loss is in the frequencies where most of the spectrum of human voices fall. While I get that people who are naturally quite soft-spoken have a hard time remembering to project their voice, people blurting out comments and arguments out of turn interfere with the ability to follow the comments being made by the person who has the floor at that moment.
I know I’m not the only hearing-impaired person who depends on speechreading and orderly conduct to follow a discussion adequately. And given the demand for live streams-whether audio only or video feed, these virtual attendees deserve the opportunity to hear what’s being said clearly as well.
@yashsedai and I were talking about a way to make that a bit easier to deal with, both for recording and who has the ability to talk. Hopefully we will have something working by the next meeting or at least a proposal for buying a solution
Please share your plans before proposing, I’d love to look into options with you guys as well. We also have a pretty well versed member in AV in @Adam_Oas.
It’s always been a problem that exists at all governing body meetings. There’s a certain percentage of folks, that just feel their personal opinion is so important, that they need to say something about everything, interupt others, talk over the top of people, usually with accompanying theatrics, rude behavior, and over the top rhetoric.
The only way to stop it, is a clear set of rules for speaking, ruthless and instant enforcement.
The board was also aware of this last hearing issue last night, and I believe I speak for all of the board members when I say that we definitely want everyone in the audience to be able to hear what is being said. To me that means microphones at the Board table and also a microphone for audience speakers, and an orderly queue for the members to speak at ~when recognized~.
More to come on this, as Pearce, Freddy and Nick have mentioned.
I agree Brian and I also take @Hardsuit’s comments last night to heart regarding proper meeting administration. We’re new, we’ll learn, it’ll get better.
Thanks to everyone in attendance last night, and thank you for your patience as we Board neophytes get dialed in.
Might consider getting minimum of 6 mics - 5 for BoD members and at least 1 for passing around the audience. 8 would be better. A spare and 2 to pass around the room.
Go wireless on all mics. Less stuff to keep track of / deal with.
Is there mix brd that works directly w/ wireless mics?
Need a way to record off the mix brd.
Don’t see any PA amps or speakers listed here.
This is an investment. Get the “good stuff”. Store it as a set up kit that has to checked out / back in. Person / group that checks it out is fully responsible for its return.
Think bigger picture here as in used in the 102 front lobby classroom being rented out to other businesses.
Discussed this w/ Digital Media folks over a year ago. @Clayton (?) had some suggestions.
You need input from those who do this for a living, not just scanning amazon or a catalog.
Appreciate the suggestion, the components were picked off an existing setup with updated part numbers, I’m using amazon as a reference point.
We built this style setup for livestream. If we want an amp and some speakers thats great, but not required for what we were doing.
Feel free to inquire amongst the sound community, I didnt pick cadillac and I didnt pick bottom of the barrel. Shure is pretty well accepted. Mackie and Canon too. Blackmagic is the name in streaming/capture. Feel free to pick it apart, just remember at some point it becomes opinion
Need everybody in the room to hear what’s going on - not just those out in internet land. If we’re going to put together a system, might as well address all needs. And can be used for other gatherings, etc.
No issues w/ brands you picked. Just say’n there’s members who do this for a living whose input might keep us from making bad decisions.
Freddy would happy to help you and Pearce set this up. I agree with the blackmagic. Digital Media has a number of unused mics and a sound board. With the audio booth being built out in phase 2 perhaps we could start with that and replace in the future. 14 channels are a bit over kill for current needs. I don’t do this for a living. I do this for a hobby and paid side gigs, but really am motivated to see this issue resolved.
My logic behind the 14 channels was not that we needed all the channels as much as the integrated preamps for the mics. Less equipment
Do tell us your thoughts!
