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| 03/24/2006 3:50 PM |
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Several folks have asked me how we will do this live broadcast from Amsterdam. I posted a bit of the technical information in my business blog (http://www.eonconsulting.net/OnQ/archives/2006/03/on_amsterdam_pa_1.shtml ) but I thought you might like to read about it here, too.
Normally, our show is recorded in the audio booth at Tucker Communications in Denton about a week before it airs. Rhandi Kidwell and I go through the material, and Ed Tucker cleans it up and packages it for broadcast on the station.
On April 5, however, I'll be in Amsterdam and poor Rhandi and Ed will be stuck back in Denton. Here's how it's all supposed to work.
- I'll get an wireless connection at the hotel and will get my Mac Powerbook connected to the internet.
- I'll use the Gizmo Project client (with a USB headset) to make a Voice over IP connection to a laptop (also running Gizmo Project) in the audio booth back in Denton.
- Rhandi will have a microphone connected to the laptop so I can her her over the Gizmo connection back in Amsterdam.
- The audio output from Ed's laptop (my voice) will be fed into the mixer, along with a second microphone for Rhandi.
- Ed will mix the two audio signals through his encoder, which will turn around and pipe the signal back out through the internet radio feed.
We're expecting about a 10-30 second delay from the mixed signal in the booth to the audience speakersbased on previous live remotes done on the station. This will be the first time, however, that the live remote source has come from ouside the US.
Ed and I have spent hours testing and tweaking the connections and audio signals, and from in the US, it works. We even had Marina listen in on a test feed from her connection in Holland (it took her a few seconds to realize that the feed was live and not prerecorded).
The only unknown at this point is the connection I'll be able to get at the hotel. If everything goes smoothly,I'll fire up my laptop, connect to the hotel wireless internet, and get a decent connection back to the US. If not, we'll run one of our prerecorded shows instead.
i'm not sure where I'll set up at the hotel for the feed. I'd like to set up in a public area so anyone who has arrived early for the conference (it won't officially start until the next day) can hang out and see the Amsterdam side of the show. Or witness just how frustrated I get if we can't pull this off.
If you can't be in Amsterdam for the conference, you can still participate. Just open your browser to http://www.apostleradio.org at 10am CST (16:00 GMT) and click on one of the Listen Now links in the upper-right corner of the page. The broadcast will be carried live on all three stations in the Tucker Communications family that morning.
If you can't be in Amsterdam and you can't catch the show live, you'll be able to catch it on the archives at http://www.eoncall.com later in the day (or possibly the next day, depending on how tired I am after the flight overseas).
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Eriq Neale - Show host, business owner
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