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

 

 

 

Altar or lectern:

Less room resonance

Unobtrusive due to

on a sound-reflecting

portions or comb filter

flat design;

surface

elements;

no microphones in

 

improved speech

the field of vision

 

intelligibility and

 

 

greater gain reserves

 

 

in contrast to free-

 

 

standing microphones

 

 

 

 

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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