[access-uk] Re: advice required about multipurpose microphones

The feedback you hear is because sound entering the microphone is coming th=
rough the laoudspeaker and making the round trip back into the mic and so o=
n being amplifiedeach time which iscausing the howling.=20

The traditiona way around this isto break the loop using a headset mic, a h=
eadphone with mic built in.  These come in avariety of configurations but a=
 good one with jacks for both headphone and to fit into the micrphone socke=
t of the laptop (assuming it has one) will cost somewhere between =A310 and=
 =A320.  I brought two last year made by Altec Lansing I think and they are=
 pretty good for the money.

I have seen a couple of desktop units that act like a speaker phone.  I wou=
ld be a little wary of these given that you could end up with a wrong'un th=
at doesn't really work very well or wrose still disables your soundcard and=
 has Jaws coming through it as well.  I saw one of these in Maplin a few we=
eks back and was tempted but as I did not try it I cannot advise on suitabi=
lity.

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Sent: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:24:26 -0000
From: "Alexander Shannon" <alexacts2v4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] advice required about multipurpose microphones

> Hi all,
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> sorry for the strange subject line, however, what I would like some advic=
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> on is what sort of microphone I could buy to connect through the micropho=
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> slot on my Acer Laptop, that would not only record my voice into MP3 as w=
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> as the inbuilt microphone, but also enable me to use skype.
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> I have found that the current inbuilt microphone will not work easily wit=
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> skype and it can sometimes cause feed back to occur if I do not switch it=
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> off before returning to typing on the computer.
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> Thank you all for any advice.
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> Alexander Shannon=20
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