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Originally Posted by rocktech  Questions:
- are there any specific considerations for skype combined with a large
sound system in a hall? I know skype has echo cancellation technology but
that's probably designed for use with computer speakers and computer mic in a home situation. Will it work in a hall too? |
Hmmm good question... See below.
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- can skype be set to use the line input of my sound card as an input?
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Yes, just checked.
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- i need mr. famous to hear the presenter and i intend to connect my skype computer's line in to a line out (main mix) of the foh console in the venue (to which the presenter's mic and some other sound sources are connected).
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Don't do this! This will cause feedback as you mention. What you want to do is have a send on the presenter's microphone channel to a separate output that is connected to the input of your Skype computer. Like this the signal from your Skype computer isn't fed back to it's input. Now the only feedback risk (on the venue's side) is from the PA speakers (and monitors) to the presenter's microphone.
Worst case scenario would be to gain ride the faders of the presenter's microphone channel and the Skype computer channel on the FOH mixer.
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In that case, is there some clever workaround like routing an aux bus to skype for the presenter's mic only? Otherwise i'd have to split the xlr cable from the presenter's mic and bring a separate preamp to connect to the skype computer, but then mr. famous can't hear the other sound sources. hmm, thinking about it, i'll probably use an aux bus anyway - i just have to check if there is a free bus, i don't know the console yet but i have been told it's decent.
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Heh. I see you have already thought of these things. That will teach me for replying before reading the whole post. :-)
Alistair
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