The third podcast was recorded on Wednesday.

The system is still evolving, but not much more can be done.

Sound is now the Zoom F1 with SSH-6 set to 60 degrees mid-side, placed centre of the table between the four panelists It still needs a little Eq after, but it is otherwise fairly clean and deep. I am going to try shooting across the room, removing the corner echo and cleaning up the messy background. You would assume the diagonal would be longer, but I realised we can hang the background foam-core panel on the wall, saving two feet.

I could have moved to Lav mics for less than $100 (3 more Boya M1’s and a second XLR to 3.5 adapter for the zoom, allowing 4 to be used at once). The little H5 does not get much of a run, but boy has it got flexibility. The problem with this is having to mic up four people, then being stuffed when a fifth guest is added one day or a mic goes down.

The mid-side shotgun allows me to deal with up to six, the maximum for the table.

Picture is fine. The Flat profile on the S5 is quickly becoming a favourite.

Lighting is what it is, which is to say the rule of “the subject should always be brighter than the background” is out the window. If it goes on to bigger things I have tons of muscle in the background, but as we are now, it is “what you see is literally……….”.