Hi all<div><br></div><div>As a start setup for interviewing go to maplin purchase a £49.95 irig mic plug it into your mobile phone multi socket usually the TRRS headphone /mic socket then plug your headphones into that plug dial the studio and off you go for live! For recorded news even better same set up download the irig app record into and edit on it then email to the studio email - presenter just plays from it </div><div><br></div><div>Simples!</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards to all</div><div>Neil Munday </div><div>SUSY Radio 103.4<span></span></div><div><br>On Sunday, 2 October 2016, Mike Davison <<a href="mailto:mike@g1sbn.freeserve.co.uk">mike@g1sbn.freeserve.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I was hoping someone would mention Skype. We have three kits for
live interviewing as bi-lateral operation.</p>
<p>They are affectionately known as THB1,2 and 3. THB stands for
'Talking Hand-Bag'.</p>
<p>THB1 is just a simple mobile 'phone with 12volt Yuasa battery
powering a car kit in a bag with sockets for mic and headphones.
Quality just tolerable but it was a start and simple to use. One
of our technophobe volunteers likes it.<br>
</p>
<p>THB2 is a HP Netbook with 3G dongle in a Maplin flight case and
sockets for mic and headphones. It is used with Skype only for
interviewing.</p>
<p>THB3 is a Windows phone clamped on a board with notepad and a 3rd
party adapter to feed headphones and take a mic. It can be used on
Skype or as a mobile accepting a quality reduction if internet
connection not good.</p>
<p>THB2 is also pressed into service for unilateral use on full
remote OB operation using Windows Media Encoder streaming directly
over the internet to studio where a PC runs WinMedia Player. We
have done 4 hour OB's with no glitches being observed on a CD
quality stereo link. The down side of using this 'free' software
is a 7-8second delay but that's easily covered up.</p>
<p>Mike Davison, Tempo FM.<br>
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<div>On 02/10/2016 16:16, Two Lochs Radio
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<p>We've done numerous on the fly OBs - generally just using a
laptop with ICEcast or similar over public internet, with
complete success - all it needs is a reasonable broadband
connection (we have no 3G let alone 4G within 50 miles!). But
that's strictly for one-way work, with the whole show originated
at the far end. <br>
</p>
<p>For really occasional two-way work not needing music from the
far end we use Skype - as long as a decent microphone and
reasonably powerful PC is used, the quality of Skype nowadays is
remarkably good. Of course for really on the fly work you can
use a smartphone running Skype for the remote end (and there are
some quite high quality proprietary solutions for smartphones).<br>
</p>
<p>For high-quality low-latency interviews and two-way shows we
used to use ISDN, but once a regularly weekly two-way show
finished we couldn't justify the couple of hundred pounds a
quarter for the line rental just for occasional use.<br>
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<p>Alex<br>
</p>
<p>(PS if anybody would like to buy two AudioTX ISDN licences we
could talk!).<br>
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<p>On 02 October 2016 at 12:17 Callum McLean
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mail@callum-mclean.co.uk');" target="_blank"><mail@callum-mclean.co.uk></a> wrote:<br>
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<br>
I was thinking about the Barix kit, but I didn't get the
impression<br>
that it was going to be robust enough... <br>
<br>
Good to know that other people have used the PS-kit
successfully - and<br>
cheers for the heads-up about potentially high latency in the
MP3<br>
format! Was hoping not to go down the MP3 route in any case,
but still<br>
good to know...<br>
<br>
Good shout about using SIP to negotiate the connection - will
look into<br>
it!<br>
<br>
Has anyone used this sort of kit in a flyaway environment -
i.e. not in<br>
installations? Typically, this is the sort of thing where most
people<br>
might use a) an ISDN line; b) a flyaway sat connection; c) a
bonded 4G<br>
link. We *were* going to go down the multiple-carrier bonded
4G route,<br>
until the cost just became prohibitive for what we want to
achieve.<br>
<br>
Also, to answer Iain's question, we're only using this over
the public<br>
internet - the plan is to require the venue hosting the OB to
provide<br>
us with a solid, wired internet connection - protected within
their own<br>
networking infrastructure, where possible, and then do
everything we<br>
can to keep latency and bandwidth down whilst retaining audio
quality.<br>
The only downside with the Sonifex kit is that they don't
support<br>
encoding in Opus :(<br>
<br>
Cal McLean<br>
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Station Technician // Halton Community Radio 92.3 FM<br>
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