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Does anyone who podcasts with multiple people in the room, or interviews or whatever, have experience or pointers for setting up digitally phased array of micro

Does anyone who podcasts with multiple people in the room, or interviews or whatever, have experience or pointers for setting up digitally phased array of microphones? There are commercial systems that do this [0] but I haven't seen much example code online. I'm assuming with ~5 very cheap microphones [1] you could get a crisp sound and filter out localized noise in post processing. [0] - http://www.clearone.com/products_beamforming_mic_array http://www.clearone.com/products_beamforming_mic_array [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjVmMvmQFOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjVmMvmQFOM

eropple 9y ago
I don't understand--why would you need or want a "digitally phased array of microphones"? What problem is it trying to solve that normal multi-track recording doesn't? Get five reasonable dynamic microphones (elsewhere I linked the AT2005USB for $79 and a Knox knockoff for $59), sit people about four feet apart (you can do closer if you have to), and treat the walls a little. Professionals will do basically the same thing, only upgrading the mics to ElectroVoices or something.
- gravypod 9y ago
  It's more difficult to perform such a setup on the go. You can't bring 5 expensive mics to some places. You can't bring audio insulation to most places. You can bring a laptop, a device to multiplex recording devices, some stands, and a few cheap lapel mics to most places. Maybe you want to, or have to, record audio outdoors. Maybe you need to record somewhere where construction or work is happening in a single direction. Many reasons
  - eropple 9y ago
    What you're describing doesn't really parse to me. A laptop, an audio interface, and a few pretty-cheap dynamic mics are my usual setup in the first place, and audio quality, even in relatively hostile rooms, is pretty okay. Outdoors recording has never presented much of a problem (but that's what shotguns are for anyway, yeah?), either. Maybe you're dealing with more specialized stuff than I run into, but something like single-direction noise seems kinda corner-casey to me?
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eropple 9y ago

I don't understand--why would you need or want a "digitally phased array of microphones"? What problem is it trying to solve that normal multi-track recording doesn't? Get five reasonable dynamic microphones (elsewhere I linked the AT2005USB for $79 and a Knox knockoff for $59), sit people about four feet apart (you can do closer if you have to), and treat the walls a little. Professionals will do basically the same thing, only upgrading the mics to ElectroVoices or something.

gravypod 9y ago
It's more difficult to perform such a setup on the go. You can't bring 5 expensive mics to some places. You can't bring audio insulation to most places. You can bring a laptop, a device to multiplex recording devices, some stands, and a few cheap lapel mics to most places. Maybe you want to, or have to, record audio outdoors. Maybe you need to record somewhere where construction or work is happening in a single direction. Many reasons
- eropple 9y ago
  What you're describing doesn't really parse to me. A laptop, an audio interface, and a few pretty-cheap dynamic mics are my usual setup in the first place, and audio quality, even in relatively hostile rooms, is pretty okay. Outdoors recording has never presented much of a problem (but that's what shotguns are for anyway, yeah?), either. Maybe you're dealing with more specialized stuff than I run into, but something like single-direction noise seems kinda corner-casey to me?

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