Positioning the microphone
Boundary microphones make use of the pressure effects at a room boundary and need to be mounted on a flat sur- face:
Position | Resulting sound | Commentary |
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Altar or lectern: | Less room resonance | Unobtrusive due to |
on a | portions or comb filter | flat design; |
surface | elements; | no microphones in |
| improved speech | the field of vision |
| intelligibility and |
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| greater gain reserves |
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| standing microphones |
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Conference rooms: | Less room resonance | Microphones must |
lying on the table; | in contrast to free- | not be covered by |
directed towards the | standing microphones | papers, folders or |
conference |
| similar objects |
participants *) |
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