Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Avoiding Audio System Problems During Conferences

By Sean M. Murphy


The availability of a good audio system is of vital importance during any presentation or conference, without which the presentation becomes tiring and incoherent. The organizers of these events can invest in audio visual equipment that can be used over and over again, or if the need is temporary in nature, they can go for audio rental, where the responsibility of the audio system and related equipments will be of the rental company.

How to Avoid Problems with Audio Systems?

When organizing a conference, if the business chooses to use their own audio systems, then they have to make sure that their equipment is befitting the venue to avoid problems of audio disturbances.

Make sure you assess the venue of the event well in advance. A room with too many reverberant surfaces causes a lot of disturbance in the audio. In order to prevent this, the room should be acoustic treated, which means that acoustical ceiling tiles should have been used, along with sound absorbing wall panels, carpeted floors, and thick curtains for the windows. If this is not the case, then seek advice of an expert to see how you can minimize reverberations with some temporary solutions.

Keeping microphones away from external disturbance sources is important for reducing audio disturbances. Allot a minimum number of microphones for the event and optimize user control over the volume. Also keep in mind that too many or too few loudspeakers will add to the problem. The key is to use an adequate number, which will minimize the loudspeaker audio and allow you to keep a reasonable volume throughout.

These are some tricks that will help you reduce audio disturbances and put on a great show at the conference. You can avoid being constantly worried about the sound quality of the audio systems if you rent out this service from a reputed rental company, who will make sure that your conference goes through without any glitches in the audio.

Buying or Renting Audio Equipment

Audio rental can be quite beneficial for events like conferences at new venues. Buying these equipments would make sense if your company holds presentations and conferences frequently for a small to medium audience size. For larger audiences and larger venues, the equipment should also be bigger and more in number, which means the investment will also be more. This investment is not limited to the equipments alone. You have to finance the tech support and operators, who will make sure that there is no malfunction during the event.

Also you have to be responsible for maintaining and upgrading the systems, which again takes a considerable amount of funds. When the equipment is your own, then you have to deal with all audio visual problems that might crop up before, during or after the program. The other option of renting audio systems is more convenient as the audio rental company takes care of the rented audio equipment installation, handling and service. In several cases, you can even hire on site technical support from them.

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