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Once a month my company has an all staff meeting with about 50-60 of us gathered around a very large table. We have about 4-5 people remoting in from around the country via Skype, displayed on a big screen TV. The video quality is less than stellar, but it's not much of a concern. The audio is what's important. We can hear the remote users just fine in our office.

The remote users, however, have a hard time hearing us. With just the mic attached to the webcam, as you'd imagine, it doesn't pick up voices very well from across the room in such a large conference, and it picks up white noise from the people near the mic sipping coffee and what not, while the person all the way across the room is talking. To add to the challenge, this is a non profit so I'm trying to find a solution on the cheap.

I've looked into possibly getting a 4 channel mixer which would feed into the mic input of our laptop that's running Skype. Then hooking up 4 mics to the mixer that are placed near the four corners of this giant table and throughout the meeting manually adjusting the levels on the mixer to only pick up the appropriate mic. Does anybody have any other ideas or any experience with a good solution in this scenario? Thanks for any help! Hi Jesse, You nailed the problem - for any conferencing application, lousy audio leads to collaboration problems. The answer really depends on your room size, table size, seating arrangement, and audio mic requirements. (Individual mute per station, noise levels, wired or wireless mics, configurable multipurpose room, BYOD or fixed PC/video con equipment or mobile cart, speakers and placement, audio bandwidth.) And your budget.

Wireless mics provide flexibility in placement around the room and individual mute buttons per mic. (That frees you up from having to manually play with the mixer during the call too.) Wired mics can have the problem of cable runs and clutter, but are generally less expensive. 50-60 people in a conference room means a pretty big room, probably 4 mics minimum, 6-8 better, regardless of what type you finally choose. At Revolabs (yes, I'm a green guy) we've got multiple solutions for conference room audio. A 4-8 channel Fusion is a plug-and-play system can do the job as I understand it.

Hi Jesse, You nailed the problem - for any conferencing application, lousy audio leads to collaboration problems. The answer really depends on your room size, table size, seating arrangement, and audio mic requirements. (Individual mute per station, noise levels, wired or wireless mics, configurable multipurpose room, BYOD or fixed PC/video con equipment or mobile cart, speakers and placement, audio bandwidth.) And your budget. Wireless mics provide flexibility in placement around the room and individual mute buttons per mic. (That frees you up from having to manually play with the mixer during the call too.) Wired mics can have the problem of cable runs and clutter, but are generally less expensive.

50-60 people in a conference room means a pretty big room, probably 4 mics minimum, 6-8 better, regardless of what type you finally choose. At Revolabs (yes, I'm a green guy) we've got multiple solutions for conference room audio. A 4-8 channel Fusion is a plug-and-play system can do the job as I understand it. My jury rigged solution seemed to work exceptionally well.

I got a cheap 6 channel mixer, 6 cheap cardioid mics, and 6 table mic stands, and was able to capture audio from everyone around the table very clearly for our Skyped-in remote people. The whole setup cost about $200. Just threw the audio from the mixer into the mic input of our laptop (after figuring our I needed an adapter for that because it was a dual mic/speaker jack on the laptop). Also had to figure out I needed to plug the laptop's power in with a 2 prong power adapter.

Using a three pronged plug was causing what I found out is called a ground loop, which was causing a ton of interference. Thanks for the replies. Our 6 channel mixer: ($84 on Amazon) NADY RMX-6 6-Channel Microphone/Line Mixer (NADY RMX6) Our mics: (2 x $40 on Amazon) 2 of these: Behringer ULTRAVOICE XM1800S Dynamic Cardioid Vocal Microphones, 3-Pack The audio cable (or adapter you'll need) from the output of the mixer to your laptop will vary depending on the audio input on your laptop, whether it's a dedicated mic input or combined mic/headphone jack. You'll also need to pick up the mic cables of appropriate lengths to connect to the mixer. It works with all the mics turned on, but you will potentially hear ambient noise from any of the mics.

Every once in a while I found the need to manually adjust the levels, but for the most part I leave all the mics at the same levels throughout the meeting. At some point I found some neoprene adhesive sponge padding to stick to the bottom of the table top mic stands which really helped stop loud scratching noises being picked up by mics whenever they were dragged across the table or whenever someone tapped on the table near one of the mics. If your mic stands dont have a well padded bottom, I'd definitely recommend doing that. You can find some on Amazon. Hi Jesse, this thread has been really helpful as we have a similar situation when using videoconferencing. We only have about 8 people around a large table and we can hear the people on the screen just fine, but they have a really hard time hearing the conversation that is going on in the conference room.

Another mic that i've seen recommended is this one: Would that mic also work with your setup? We want to get a mic for each person around the table and then plug each one into the channel mixer and then into a single laptop. USB mics, like the one you've shared, won't work with a mixer (maybe there are mixers out there that accept USB inputs, but I'm not aware of them).

I think you'll need to find mics that connect by XLR cables, which are analog connections as opposed to USB, which is digital. But depending on the size of that table, you may only need a single USB conference mic, like the one you've shared. We use these for that purpose: which seem to work well for conferencing up to about 6-8 people around a small-ish table. Thanks for your quick reply. I am woefully ignorant about audio matters! The MXL mic i shared has both a USB and headphone/speaker jack on the back of each mic. Can the mic be connected via XLR cable to the headphone/speaker jack and then to the mixer, or will that simply not work with this mic?

We have been using a setup with an older polycom which has two additional mics that sit on the table but the folks on the screen simply can't hear the conversation in the room very well unless each person picks up the mic and speaks directly into it, so we want to find a setup that includes a mic for each person. Maybe the mics you shared would indeed be better for this. Thanks again! If your budget isn't super super tight, I'd probably invest in one of those Jabra conference mics I shared in addition to getting the multi mic setup.

I've used some ancient Polycom mics that don't work well, but newer ones like the one I shared have audio processing built into them that might give your remote people clearer audio with just that single dish mic than you get with the 3 you're using now. But I think the audio jack on the one you shared is simply for connecting a speaker to it for audio output (could be mistaken).

If you're going to do the multi mix setup with a mixer, I'd get some mics that have XLR jacks on them. If this needs to be setup and broken down often, you may want to look at wireless options, too, if you have the money for them.

That'll save you a lot of manual labor and look a lot cleaner. Hi everyone, I am part of an organization which uses zoom platform for many different conference set up and rooms.

Today and tomorrow we are in a room and we have 3 remote users connected with us today. My problem is the following. We don't use a mixer.

We only have two blueball mics and a logitech HD pro webcam. Our plan was to have multiple mics in the room to enhance the sound experience for all users. Unfortunately, we have a lot of feedback, and it seems impossible to have speakers, and mics on in the room without having those feedbacks.

Do someone has a solution for us. For now, we managed to plug in two mics on two different computers, and each time someone wants to speak, with mute one of the two mics, and everytime someone who is connected online wants to speaks we have to turn off our mics and turn on our speakers. As you can guess, it is not a very 'sustainable' situation for us.

Do you have any ideas? We are a non-profit, and we can't afford to spend over 500$ on a solution.

Omnidirectional Microphone Conference Room

Thanks to anyone who has any ideas to help me!!!! Spicehead-ov87r; With the Blue Snowballs, we typically put them on mic setting 3 (omni-directional) in order to provide better room coverage.

As far as I can tell, your feedback issue comes from the fact you have two PCs with mic/speaker setup, which will cause your feedback. Do you need this for any other reason than mic coverage? If not, I would recommend setting your mic to omni-directional and running with one PC.

Wireless Omnidirectional Microphone

Another option is to have everyone on their own laptops (if they have them) with headsets, as this would isolate the sound generation from the pickup on each person. Finally, you could always go with an omni-directional boundary mic (like the ). The only downside of this is that if you have people who like to hit the table, this noise will be very loud for the mic. Best of luck.