AV TECH ARTICLES
Sennheiser – How to Facilitate Multiple Microphone Sources
How to Facilitate Multiple Microphone Sources into Zoom with Dante Via and no DSP In the medium to the more extensive classroom and training spaces, there is an increasing desire to make systems more efficient while maintaining a high level of function. Zoom is a...
Sennheiser – Evolution Wireless Digital
The last couple of years have become challenging in radio frequencies (RF) for wireless microphone systems here in the United States. One of the main challenges includes crowding between the frequencies of 470 MHz and 608 MHz due to the TV stations affected by the...
Sennheiser – Automix 8-Channels of Wireless Microphones for Zoom
Higher-education classroom technology has been going through a transformation by necessity for over a year now, and one thing we have learned is there is not one single solution for every classroom and campus. One of the exciting aspects of this diverse trend is...
Light ’em Up… with Front of House Lighting!
In all my years of doing audio visual rentals and designing installed systems, Stage Lighting seemed to be one of those requests that were few and far between. Like projection, it is a controlled beam of light, so I used to think this was pretty straightforward. Well,...
IT Service Calls for AV Companies
As we all know, the IT world is converging with the AV world more and more every day. For most of us this is quite exciting and for others, this can be daunting. In facilities where the IT and AV world are working together and something goes wrong, who do you call? If...
Microphone Placement Is Everything!
Today I’d like share about best practices for where to place a fixed microphone when using one for speaking. These best practices apply to everyone including sports announcers for the Big Ten Conference, presidential candidates from a lectern and also general handheld...
Who Are The Players in Designing Your AVL System
Whether it’s a major project around your home or a major project you have been assigned to manage at work, when it comes time to find people and companies to get the job done, the choices and process can seem overwhelming. In the commercial AVL world, we come across...
Is More Speaker Really Better?
Pretty much the coolest thing you can do with audio is make a huge wall of speakers (or single huge speaker like Marty McFly in Back to the Future) by tying them all together and then, BLAST THE MUSIC! Well, at least that is what I thought years ago. Hey, it makes...
Is Digital Wayfinding Right For You?
The Dilemma - You are Lost When you visit a large school campus, or a hospital, or a large corporate center for the first time you do your best to find the main entrance. Sometimes it is easy to spot, but other times you end up in the wrong place or across the campus...
Should AV Be Seen?
In the AV industry, for as long as I can remember, the idea of being able to have an AV system of some kind and making it as invisible as possible has been a request of clients. At the end of the day, can you ever really hide all of the equipment in a system?...
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