Microphones
Ceiling mounted
- Great for picking up audience participants and allows everyone to be heard.
- Ceiling microphones require more tuning.
- Gain levels need to be set at a higher level, which can also introduce complications such as additional ambient noise.
- Due to distance from microphone, voices may sound distant or hollow.
Desktop mounted
- Provides greater depth to the quality of the speaker’s voice.
- Limited pickup range.
- Due to limited range, people may continually slide microphones from one speaker to the next.
- Desktop mic’s tend to hear all table related noise, such as paper shuffling, typing on laptops and laptops fan noise, etc.
Wireless
- Lapel radio microphone are good for presenters who require greater mobility.
- Wireless microphones can be passed to participants at the back where desktop or ceiling microphones cannot hear the conversation.
- Requires passing a microphone from speaker to speaker.
- Require battery charging or replacements.