how to record a presentation?

[Kai Carver]

Hi hackers,

We have a presentation tomorrow at 5 pm at the hackerspace on the LASS open air quality monitoring system, by Wuulong Hsu.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1014301961994934/

I would like to broadcast and record the presentation. I thought I had a good solution using my Windows laptop and the http://zoom.us/ system, as recommended by Wuulong. 

That solution works great in a quiet room with someone talking straight at the laptop. But in a big room like the hackerspace, the sound is terrible.

So my question: anyone have a solution for this? 

Could you recommend a microphone or other device that would solve this?

Could you lend us such a microphone or device for use tomorrow?

I know Chris Wu was able to successfully broadcast the last Drupal meetup at the hackerspace, so maybe the solution is just to use a Mac? I don't have one...

Any help on short notice would be much appreciated.

k

PS: this was what happened in a recent try:

ok the video recording was a total fail! The sound is horrible and useless.

https://youtu.be/0wWCEBiZ8Ak?t=1373

My guesses as to why it failed, in order of likelihood:

- laptop microphone not good enough for voices in several places

- hackerspace is very echoey?

- air conditioning background noise?

Maybe try to find a better microphone (omnidirectional, conference mike, boundary effect...), see for example this old thread:

http://ask.metafilter.com/23247/Best-Mic-for-Recording-a-Discussion

[Robert Sim]

Lurker from HackerspaceSG here. We have a setup here that uses a lapel mic or an omni-directional mic (depending on which set is used). The setup is done by one of our members who runs https://engineers.sg, an initiative to record meetups and tech events for the community.

[Kai Carver]

That sounds interesting, thank you! 

I'd be interested in a few more details about the setup. Can you connect me with your member who did the setup?

k a i

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