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SKYPE FOR REMOTES?

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Steve Eberhart

I'm wondering if anyone uses Skype for remotes. Since the audio sends and recieves, we could send mix minus and the quality should be near studio quality.
Just curious if anyone else has any good/bad experience using skype on the air.
 
It depends on your connection. Period. Packet loss will make mincemeat out of the audio in no time. The sound quality is ok to slightly better than telephone quality. Yes, you can feed a mix-minus down the line. But there will be delay, which will vary according to the connection.
 
If you have a very good internet connection, you can do very good mix minus with skype and the delay is very little.. I would put it on par with a tieline or a comrex if you have a 'clean' stable connection..

I've even used skype in my studio with a mix minus setup and skype out as a "poor man's hybrid" to interview musical artists and it was as good as if I had a broadcast hybrid tied into my mixer.

--Matt
 
Those of you who have tried Skype for calls and/or remotes, have you put anything on the sound card output to control the sound? I'm thinking limiting, gating, anything like that? Is there any way of doing that with software btw, or would you have to hook the line out on the card to hardware units?
 
Skype actually has an AGC on it's input circut, so normally not much need to provide any other processing than your regular air chain. Not a bad AGC and will even take a line level input down to mic level if necessary.

Do note however, it is important to give skype a mix minus at the studio end, and keep in mind that Skype "fights" to pass which ever sides audio is louder. If you are feeding bump music out of a break back into a sports event or something, if the bump music is louder than the on-site talent, the on-site feed will sound "broken up" until you duck the music down below the level of the feed coming from the on-site end.
 
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