I am part of an organization which uses zoom platform for many different conference set up and rooms. A 4-8 channel Fusion is a plug-and-play system can do the job as I understand it. 50-60 people in a conference room means a pretty big room, probably 4 mics minimum, 6-8 better, regardless of what type you finally choose.Īt Revolabs (yes, I'm a green guy) we've got multiple solutions for conference room audio. (That frees you up from having to manually play with the mixer during the call too.) Wired mics can have the problem of cable runs and clutter, but are generally less expensive. Wireless mics provide flexibility in placement around the room and individual mute buttons per mic. (Individual mute per station, noise levels, wired or wireless mics, configurable multipurpose room, BYOD or fixed PC/video con equipment or mobile cart, speakers and placement, audio bandwidth.) And your budget. The answer really depends on your room size, table size, seating arrangement, and audio mic requirements. You nailed the problem - for any conferencing application, lousy audio leads to collaboration problems.

Does anybody have any other ideas or any experience with a good solution in this scenario? Thanks for any help! Then hooking up 4 mics to the mixer that are placed near the four corners of this giant table and throughout the meeting manually adjusting the levels on the mixer to only pick up the appropriate mic.

I've looked into possibly getting a 4 channel mixer which would feed into the mic input of our laptop that's running Skype.

To add to the challenge, this is a non profit so I'm trying to find a solution on the cheap. With just the mic attached to the webcam, as you'd imagine, it doesn't pick up voices very well from across the room in such a large conference, and it picks up white noise from the people near the mic sipping coffee and what not, while the person all the way across the room is talking. The remote users, however, have a hard time hearing us. We can hear the remote users just fine in our office.

The video quality is less than stellar, but it's not much of a concern. We have about 4-5 people remoting in from around the country via Skype, displayed on a big screen TV. Once a month my company has an all staff meeting with about 50-60 of us gathered around a very large table.

Table microphone for skype calls