120 Open Mics in a ballroom.

[abrowers]

I have a client coming into my hotel who demands 120 open mics in her general session. She won't use Push-to-talks, because she doesn't want to explain the complicated technology to her people. So, I need help coming up with ways to pull this off. Money is no concern. How to gate? EQ? Group? Mix?

 

[Ethan Winer]

> I have a client coming into my hotel who demands 120 open mics ... Money is no concern. <

It's a good thing cost is no object because this will be expensive!

> How to gate? EQ? Group? Mix? <

Using gates is the simplest choice. Then the only "instructions" you have to give people is to lean in and speak up.

A good friend of mine designs systems to solve problems much like you're describing. The goal is for many people in multiple locations to all teleconference, using many open microphones (overhead), where serious DSP-based feedback suppression and echo cancelling are part of the system. If money truly is no concern, email me through my company's web site and I'll be glad to put you in touch with my friend. (He doesn't sell these systems himself, but rather designs them and codes the DSP for the company that does sell them.)

--Ethan

 

[Savant]

I have a client coming into my hotel who demands 120 open mics in her general session. She won't use Push-to-talks, because she doesn't want to explain the complicated technology to her people. So, I need help coming up with ways to pull this off. Money is no concern. How to gate? EQ? Group? Mix?

PTT = complicated?

"You see this button? Listen to me carefully now: Push. It. If. You. Want. To. Talk. Let me repeat..."

Don't people grow up playing with walkie-talkies anymore???

 

[Audioholics]

You'll need fixed mic positions and lots of gates. You can't use a gate system with suspended mics unless the session is going to be dead silent except for the speaker.

If cost is no object then I vote for assigning every attendee a lavalier microphone... lol

That or have some guy stand in the front of the room with a shotgun parabolic mic system and point at each speaker...