Friends:
Not recording, but presentingplayback:
I'd really value your suggestions on giving a talk about bird songs
and recording of birds to a medium sized audience.
I frequently give talks (used to be slides but now "powerpoint") on
nature/conservation topics --- flowers, insects, birds, threatened
habitats etc. These have gone pretty well connecting my laptop to an
LCD projector.
This spring my topic seems to be natural sounds, recording, and some
details about the biology of song birds and singing behaviour.
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Do you have any suggestions about how to play back sounds to the audience?
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My current thought is to run the output from the laptop's audio card
into an amplifier and hook up two speakers (what I have are smallish,
cheap roughly 8x10" speakers about $100/pair) at the front of the room
and pointing to the back wall of the room at 45 degrees or so.
I can use power point (actually the free OpenOffice version of the
program) to show pictures, text, sonograms and play back sounds as needed.
The whole thing has to be very portable (I carry it, set it up in 10
minutes).
My question is how to get the best quality sound for the audience
given the equipment available or with small additional expense.
Thanks for any and all suggestions!
Steve P.
P.S. One of my target audience is the members and supporters of a
wetlands land trust, "Oxbow" ( see http://www.oxbowinc.org/) that is
very high on my all-time admiration list --- an all volunteer
organization that has protected about 2000 of acres of wetlands in the
last 20 years). So I'd like to give them as good a show as possible!
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