Microphone Placement Guide for 6–12 Person Boardrooms
There’s a specific frustration that happens in boardrooms. The room looks right. The display is big, the camera is sharp, the table is impressive. Then the call starts and someone in Chicago says “I can barely hear the people at the far end of the table.” And then someone else says “there’s an echo.” And […]
Acoustic Treatment vs Mic Selection: Where to Spend Your Budget
Here’s a situation that plays out in offices constantly. The conference room sounds bad on calls. The IT manager or the office manager decides the microphone must be the problem, because that’s the device that captures audio, so that’s the obvious culprit. They spend $800 on a better microphone. The calls still sound bad. Then […]
Lighting for Video Meetings: How to Get Studio-Quality Faces in Your Conference Room
There’s a reason news anchors and podcast hosts look so good on camera. It’s not the camera. It’s not the software. It’s the light. Specifically, it’s where the light is coming from and how it’s controlled. The average conference room does almost everything wrong by that standard. Overhead panels blasting straight down from the ceiling. […]
Room Audio & Lighting — Make Everyone Look & Sound Great
You can have a $1,500 camera on the wall and a premium Zoom subscription and still sound like you’re calling from a parking garage if the room wasn’t designed with audio in mind. You can have the sharpest display in the building and still look like a shadowy blob to the people on the other […]