Thanks John It's great to have your involvement always too Of course you are the originator of soundcamp's IRC obsessions..!
We re def on the verge of having an affordable really easy to work kit finally i think - which feels maybe quite significant for opening the project up I think it would be great to address that challenge and tie up the loose ends
We are all fond of the esoteric setups, like you describe - we all have them to some extent! And messing with the tech is surely in many ways a great alternative to simply switching on some sleek device..
But also we really want to increase the distribution of the microphones, not with ambitions to grow the project for its own sake, but to widen participation in under represented areas.
An affordable simple kit could go a long way to doing that at this stage, I think.
thanks and bw grant
On 12 May 2021, at 20:24, John Hopkins jhopkins@neoscenes.net wrote:
Always cool to participate in a networked/streamed/collaborative project! Been doing that since 1990! In regard to your comments, Grant, I would challenge the group to come up with a spec'ed streambox configuration that can be packaged and perhaps sold to streamers where ever they might be located (I'm in the rural US west). While I have a strong electrical engineering background and definitely appreciate the discussions about devices on the list (and at aporee), I just don't have the time to tinker with testing a bunch of components and fabricate them into a reasonable device that I can deploy. Thus I have a system consisting of an older MacBook Pro running nicecast to locusonus with a Yeti mike (or I can use my Zoom H4n as mike), sticking the mike out an open window. This configuration is really not practical or possible to keep running all the time for a variety of reasons.
Cheers, John
On 12/May/21 12:36, Grant Smith wrote:
It would be good if we can use some of the new low cost / low power streamboxes to make some of these streams available over the longer term. Maybe this can be a plan for the coming year..
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