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One of the offices that I support has a Factor V-460 mixer amp wired into a house sound system in their lobby. They want to play royalty-free music off of basically an iPod. What would be a good .mp3 player to use these days? My usual go-to of Wirecutter doesn't seem to keep a list of well-regarded .mp3 players; it would be best if it didn't have a battery so we wouldn't have to worry about it swelling or exploding or anything, and we can just plug it into wall power. Their budget for this is pretty minimal, I doubt they'd be willing to spend more than a couple hundred dollars; is my best bet going to be just a surplus iPhone?
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Our dispatch office has a radio software we use that is essentially a soft radio; you plug a microphone and speakers into a computer, and run a client for the software, it connects to a server that is connected to the repeater. We bought one of these for the speakers about a year ago: https://us.creative.com/p/sound-blaster/sound-blasterx-g5 And it seems to have cleaned up the sound a bit. We're running into some issues with the microphone, which is one of these: https://essentialtradingsystems.com/product/vm-1s-usb-dispatch-microphone/ We're hearing distortion on the microphone, getting weird sound artifacts, etc. It's a USB microphone (USB-B out, specifically), they like that specific microphone, and it's the one recommended by the vendor. We're currently using a USB cable with ferrite chokes at both ends. Any recommendations for how we might clean up that signal at all? I'm downloading the latest firmware now to give that a try, but I'm not optimistic. To be clear, we're not running the microphone through the external sound card, just the speakers, I just wanted to give some context of what the setup is. Ham Equity fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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Flipperwaldt posted:The user guide for the microphone says to set the input level in the windows settings to 50%-70% to start with. I recommend trying something like Audacity to see if you actually get clipping and if lowering that level helps. Heh, when I was troubleshooting earlier today I dropped the mic level from 65 to 55. It maybe helped a little, but I did it at the same time as I was moving the cable around to get it away from other cables.
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