wireless tabletop mic

When we were still active in event production, one of our “bread and butter” event types was conference audio. We live in a college town and there are lots of meetings that have to be reinforced for audiences and recorded for later transcription.While not as exciting as concert audio, this was lucrative work with good hours and a high quality clientele. Best of all, it did not require constant updating of equipment and trying to meet performers performance riders and eqiupment wish lists.

It did require microphones-lots of microphones. We worked with boundary mics like the Crown PCC160, podium goosneck mics like the Audio Technica 857 and more standard mics like the Shure SM57. Regardless of the mic choice, there was need for lots and lots of cabling. A neat look was always required and micing up tables, tucking wires under table skirting, long runs of multicables to prevent trip hazards and lots of taping down mic cables was always necessary. It meant a lot of set up and strike time.

Revolabs, a European microphone manufacturer, has a great new product that solves all those problems. Their Solo TableTop Wireless Boundary Microphone provides the conference audio technician with up to 16 separate, digitally encoded, boundary table mics. They are rechargable (only two hours charge time) and will perform for up to 8 hours of talk time. Over the life of this system, it could pay for itself in battery savings.
Revolabs offers this mic in both omni and cardiod patterns, so it should be possible to work this great idea into lots of different conference set ups.

Bandwidth is a very reasonable (for spoken word) 100-6800 hz and the range, depending on pickup pattern, can be as much as 100 feet.

This is a package any conference center might want to consider for their Christmas wish list.

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