Educators
Quality Audio For
Classroom Streaming
Online classes are becoming increasingly popular, and streaming video of the instructor is relatively easy. Wireless microphones provide excellent audio for the instructor, and adding a second camera to capture video of the students is straightforward. However, capturing audio of student questions and interactions can be challenging.
Passing a wireless handheld microphone from student to student is time-consuming and disruptive and can create handling noise. One or more Sound Shark microphones can effectively capture classroom interactions without these drawbacks.
To make the Sound Shark more available to educators, we have instituted a discount program for education institutions. Learn more about this discount program here.
Most high schools and colleges have video production programs, and sports at both levels are often broadcast or streamed. Unfortunately, many of these educational programs have limited budgets for audio equipment, which can lead to poor audio quality in their productions.
The Sound Shark is a budget-friendly microphone that can drastically improve the audio of your productions. With its greater range and focus than a shotgun microphone, the Sound Shark can provide on-field sounds that a shotgun mic just can't match. This can greatly improve the audio portion of your video production.
The Sound Shark is used to broadcast or stream classes, meetings, special programs, plays, and even sporting events. However, due to their extreme sensitivity, they are not well-suited for sound reinforcement/PA systems.
High School Classroom
Kevin Buntman, a math and computer science teacher at Kettle Morain High School, reviewed the Sound Shark for us. His evaluation?
“It’s a game changer that now our virtual learners can hear exactly what everyone’s saying, no matter where they are in the room, which gets them to be a part of the class… The Sound Shark was awesome. A great tool that has created so much better discussion in class…”
High School Baseball
Tom White of School Video News reviewed the Sound Shark. His evaluation?
“I have to say that I was blown away by the difference between the Sound Shark and the shotgun microphone. I had trouble when I was shooting because I tended to zoom in more than I needed to because it felt like the audio didn’t match the shot. It felt fake while I was shooting. The audio was too clean to be that far away.”
Watch Tom’s demonstration of the Sound Shark’s range and focus at a high school baseball game or read the full review here.
High School Rugby
Does on-field sound really improve your overall production? We created a demonstration of the difference in on-field sound made to the production of a high school rugby tournament. Both programs were produced by the same production company one year apart. The on-field sound, provided by a parabolic microphone, was the difference.
College Classroom
When Covenant College was faced with the challenge of streaming classes, they soon discovered the challenge of capturing clear audio in the classroom. The professors were unwilling, or unable, to deal with wireless mics. Shotgun mics, the obvious alternative, picked up too little of the speaker and too much classroom noise.
Covenant’s Audio Video Coordinator, Ben Ray, was familiar with the Sound Shark and asked to test one. The results were so good that the college purchased 42 Sound Sharks for their classrooms.
“We had to capture the voice of the professors as clearly as possible while cutting-out the surrounding ambient noise. We tested this, it did exactly what we wanted it to. The HVAC, student chatter, electrical buzz, and other environmental noise was all but gone in recordings, but the professor could be heard clearly, provided the dish of the Sound Shark was aimed properly.”
“The Sound Sharks were the true key to allowing the professors to still teach from the classrooms while being heard — both the in-person students and the remote students – effectively and clearly.”
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