mic me up

From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)25 May 2015 23:20
To: ALL1 of 12
Anyone here know about radio mics?

I volunteered to look into replacing the one my camera club uses, and want to make sure I don't get trash.

At the moment we have a clip-on thing which isn't great - it's a bit eager to give feedback and can rustle on clothes, so a headset has been suggested.

Paying almost £300 for a Audio Technica BP892cLM3-TH MicroSet Subminiature Omnidirectional Condenser Headworn Microphone seems excessive when you can get a complete system for £35, but then that could be exactly the low quality rubbish I want to avoid - I have no idea whether "Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.5 (1KHz)" is good, bad, or meaningless.

So yeah, I know there are various soundy-type-people here - if anyone has a moment to provide any info on what to get/avoid/etc that'd be great. Thanks. :)

From: koswix26 May 2015 19:20
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 2 of 12
What's it used for?
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)26 May 2015 20:24
To: koswix 3 of 12
Just making people's voices louder, whatever the proper term for that is. No recording or karaoke or anything.

We have people give talks/presentations and judging/critiquing photos, etc - it helps the speaker talk normally without needing to always face audience and raise their voice for two hours.

Most of the meetings are in a room that fits 30-40 people, probably under 10m long (I'm not great doing sizes from memory), sometimes there are larger events in the main hall which fits 100-150 people.

From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)26 May 2015 20:44
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 4 of 12
Bullhorn.
From: koswix26 May 2015 21:32
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 5 of 12
Don't know if you still use Facebook but I've asked a sound engineer friend for any advice and tagged you in the post. If you don't do FB anymore I can post any replies here for ya.
From: Dan (HERMAND)26 May 2015 21:46
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 6 of 12
Off topic, but are you having to pay for Teh?
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)26 May 2015 23:02
To: koswix 7 of 12
Yeah thanks, I got a notification about that (which is weird, I don't get notified of other stuff). Still on FB every so often as a way to keep in touch with people, so I'll check it for any replies.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)26 May 2015 23:03
To: Dan (HERMAND) 8 of 12
No, I get free access here. Is Matt trying to charge you? :P
From: koswix26 May 2015 23:46
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 9 of 12
Only for 'advsnced' features, like posting.
From: af (CAER)11 Jun 2015 21:50
To: koswix 10 of 12
But not spellcheck.
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)12 Jun 2015 14:34
To: af (CAER) 11 of 12
I don't know anyone who can afford the spell check tier! 
From: sazza (DJGIRL)26 Jul 2015 20:49
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 12 of 12
Hello, I've had some very good advice from
http://www.mixdirect.co.uk and http://www.thedjshop.co.uk
They are very helpful and friendly!

Good luck
APPROVED: 26 Jul 2015 21:10 by MILKO