Adrian SegarAs companies market artificial intelligence matchmaking at events, unresolved issues could impede the adoption of this technology
#meetings #TradeShows #exhibitors #marketing #MatchMaking #AI #technology #eventtech #eventprofs
Nielso🧵 … at ~1200€, #Alphalabs #Defeedback is quite expensive for a solution that you have to explain to your client in #EventTech. Perhaps certain clients will like it because it is #AI, and AI is always the modern way to go. (So, they might like it for the bullshit, not for the effect.)
If the main contractor in my last #CorporateEvent would have provided me with cardioid headset #microphone|s instead of omni ones, this would probably have reduced feedback on a similar level already.
De-Feedback does not do the wonder of eliminating feedback from every bunch of shitty gear used in the wrong way by volunteers. Yet this is what advertisement videos of the manufacturer suggest it would do.
As a preliminary result of my test, it De-Feedback appears to be a very tasty icing on the speech sound cake.
I certainly would love to use it. Yet if the icing is more expensive than the rest of the cake, clients won't pay me for this.
Testing #Alphalabs #DeFeedback for #EventTech. This is an #AI #microphone #feedback remover.
And as usual with AI, people say it does wonders. First impression: Also as usual with AI, it can do its thing, but no wonders.
This is not to be confused with generative AI running in data centers. This is more like traditional #MachineLearning. It runs entirely local, and my #Waves system based on a #MacMiniM1 can run 1 instance of it at 64 samples buffer size with a #Rme #Digiface #Dante. Which is 2 channels of de-feedback. The #plugin itself runs at zero latency.
This is all about gain before feedback: How far can you push the faders before feedback sets in?
While this is easy to measure with traditional tools like feedback destroyers, EQs, automixers, it is hard to say here. Because this tool reduces certain frequencies in a way that apparently depends on many things, not entirely on gain.
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So while I was experiencing some issues with omni headset #microphone|s today, as usual in #eventtech in corporate events without soundcheck, a colleague used #alphalabs #defeedback on another stage of the event, apparently succesfully.
De-Feedback is an #AI-based #audioPlugin for Windows and macOS, and depending on whom you ask, it's a magic wand, or not that helpful.
It's $499, and you need a decent host to run on (they sell a $699 box with Windows IOT 11), or #Waves #Livebox ($7000), I myself have a MacMini M1 with a touch screen and an #Rme #DigifaceDante (~2000€) that could handle ~2 channels of it…
… But the difficult part is to convince the client that he should pay for that feature that nobody needed before. Because if you screw your sound with feedback-preventing EQing, it's still good enough for corporate events.
Same holds for Waves #xfdbk, a pretty decent clasic #Feedback destroyer.
I must say I am a little frustrated. I know how I could improve things, but it's not working out economically.
Heute Probe #HybridEvent in einem Klamottenkonzernchen in Metzingen, ich am #Mischpult Ich habe mir eine Monitoring/Metering-Station auf meinem #UbuntuStudio #Linux eingerichtet.
Ironischerweise laufen sowohl #OpenSoundMeter als auch #AllenAndHeath #sqMixPad in #Wine . Audio I/O via USB mit einem #AllenHeathSQ #Digitalmischpult und einem #Umik1 Messmikrofon.
Die Uhr gibt's hier: https://github.com/DrNI/senderuhr
I would really love to use #OpenSoundMeter in #EventTech on #Linux.
The #AppImage does not work with #Pipewire properly. So I managed to fetch the source from Github and compile it. The result doesn't work properly with Pipewire either: When I set my Umik-1 USB measurement mic to "pro audio", I can't access it, and when I set ot to stereo consumer input something, OpenSoundMeter does get the input, but it doesn't do analyses. Yet the input gain meters show signal.
So I tried to go full nerd mode and work on this pull request that enables #Jack support, which translates to Pipewire pro audio: https://github.com/psmokotnin/osm/pull/60/
While this does compile, it hangs on startup if any device is set to pro audio, and doesn't find any device at all otherwise.
Eventually I installed the Windows version of OpenSoundMeter in Wine, which then successfully accesses the mic via Pulse. I feel a little sick now. (And this is not because parts of the UI are in Polish now, yet missing the font displaying it properly.)
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We are a queer, feminist, non-commercial, DIY event-tech collective based in Cologne.
We are a self-organised, growing collective with varying levels of experience. Our work is characterised by learning together.
We do our best, try things out – and sometimes make mistakes. To this end, we need and create spaces where learning is a joy and mistakes are tolerated.
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Heute: Den Technik- und Werbeträger mal wieder rausgefahren in den öffentlichen Raum.
#Veranstaltungstechnik in #Ofterdingen, #Mössingen… und auch weiters weg, sogar #Stuttgart oder… morgen in #Öhringen, nächste Woche in #Metzingen. (Das ist der Fabrikverkauf hinter #Reutlingen.)
Jetzt darf der @no-tlb nur nicht vergessen, rechtzeitig wieder umzuparken, oder noch schnell einen Auftrag mit Anhängerbedarf einzuwerben.
Exploring #LinuxStudioPlugins #Autogain.
It's not a miracle cure. I have a talk event live recording that needs to be processed quickly, and its not for publication and also not paid extra… yet as often with live stereo recordings, the levels go up and down way too much.
For speakers who had used the microphone more or less properly I can find a setting that works well. For those holding the mic towards the belly button while moving their head a lot,… well, can't rescue those.
I'd really love to test a #JüngerAudio #LevelMagic unit but I can't sell my car to afford one used…
As always, using @x42 #EBU128 radar meter to check things, and #Voxengo #Elephant as final limiter via #Yabridge. In #Ardour this time.
#Recording #LSP #LinuxProAudio #LinuxAudio #DAW #Tontechnik #Veranstaltungstechnik #EventTech
