There are many things that are placed in the too-busy-to-blog bin. The Christmas season is one of those. And while I haven’t blogged in a while it comes around this time every year where I do my posts of Jeremy’s Naught and Nice Christmas Items in the audio world along with the things on my tech Christmas wish-list.So I’m going to start out a naughty-nice conversation with a very controversial thing by saying that all UHF wireless microphones are naughty. Here’s why. We know the FCC has just made it illegal to occupy the 700MHz real estate, what no one sees is that the 500MHz, 600MHz and 800MHz area are also available to the highest bidder from the FCC. It’s only a matter of time until telecommunications companies need those white space frequencies and they’re all of them sold off. What would be nice are wireless microphones that incorporate some form of Bluetooth or wireless Internet transmission. Think about it, your wireless microphones transmit as if they were a tiny wireless router, and instead of using UHF frequencies, they used IP addressing. A base station that could have a ridiculously large amount of outputs or a few ethercon jacks would then pick up the signals. And if the manufacturer is really smart they would just write some software to allow any computer to recognize that it is an incoming audio source and decode the wireless signal, so that all that is required for tiny churches with zero budget (most of us) is a laptop with an audio output. And with wi-fi repeaters and remote conneting to servers IP addresses, you could get very creative with live streaming audio from anywhere to anywhere. What’s more is that the technology already exists to do such a thing.
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