@danielroseart managed to put together the £20 each ‘fill a gap until we have our proper kit’ plinths so we have something to stand at (we need to get some black material to cover them of course in the next few days) and work ok as a central point to the presenter part of the room.

the sofa area is now set with mono audio technica pro 45 mono microphones in stereo into the maudio usb mobilepre so we get a nice conversational stereo video output. we need to dress that area with plants and some mood lighting and of course some pillows.  i’m thinking that a cold fridge would not go a miss here as well to be honest.

the microphones sound absolutely fantastic.  we are so pleased, not having to mess around handing back and forth a microphone is great – we just literally sit down and stream.  been thinking a lot today about using growl for starting the streaming running and changing to different camera views for wirecast but they really need to put something in wirecast4 to make that happen.  i need to submit that idea as well.  we are finding the telestream wirecast the best option for switching cameras.  it’s great.

obviously we need to start looking around for another mixing desk now that can accept at least four xlr inputs because we have three ceiling microphones that we can use. ideally we could do with a fourth microphone so that we get the presenting part of the show in stereo output as well.

additional we will be saving our pennies to be able to purchase some green paint for the backwall so we can do better genlocking without using the current screen we have should make for a better experience on doing genlocked work.

all good!