GoToMeeting Audio Solution

[LightCode Gaming]

So no one at my work happens to be very audio-tech-savy, and we are looking at getting a new set-up for our conference rooms, mostly the microphone side.

Current ideas we have are:

• Drop-down Mics: 4-6 Mics per room, hanging from the ceiling, placed in a quadrant/sextant of the room.
• Extension Mics: Add an additional 2 mics per room of the same brand we already use
• Put one or two Blue Snowball Mics in each room, one at each end.
   

But the problem is, our Avaya Phone system to dial into the meeting can only take 2 mics per phone. If we get two of the phones in the same room, we get feedback. So we need some sort of splitter to condense multiple mics into single lines. 

Because none of us know a lot about audio, we don't know if we need something as simple as a 3.5mm splitter or if we need a soundboard like this, or if either of those would even work with the Avaya Phone System/GoToMeeting.

We don't need anything fancy, just something that takes in 3.5mm (or a cheap converter to make 3.5mm work with it) and outputs to 3.5mm (or is able to be converted)

Price really isn't a problem, as we are just getting ideas out for the upgrade. 

EDIT:
Also, what about this?

[Bazadar]

How come you require the extra mics?

 

At my last work place, We used the same phone in a large boardroom never had any issues with picking up someones voice?

 

Though the extra mics would of helped  

[LightCode Gaming]

2 minutes ago, DarkShadowUK said:

How come you require the extra mics?

 

At my last work place, We used the same phone in a large boardroom never had any issues with picking up someones voice?

 

Though the extra mics would of helped  

The people who are using the rooms are claiming the mics don't pick enough people up. We haven't tested it ourselves, but the people using them tend to be tech savy enough to know what their problems are. Key word: tend.

I'm just doing the busy work to see what solutions would cost for any of the problems. Right now I'm stuck on the audio side.

[Bazadar]

2 minutes ago, LightCode Gaming said:

The people who are using the rooms are claiming the mics don't pick enough people up. We haven't tested it ourselves, but the people using them tend to be tech savy enough to know what their problems are. Key word: tend.

I'm just doing the busy work to see what solutions would cost for any of the problems. Right now I'm stuck on the audio side.

Oh right, We had the same thing about them claiming it's not working correctly. Till we tested it ourselves and showed them it was working fine.

 

Maybe a case of testing it for yourself and moving the mics to get the best coverage? 

 

Sorry I'm not be a great help on this topic, Just giving you ideas hopefully

[LightCode Gaming]

3 minutes ago, DarkShadowUK said:

Oh right, We had the same thing about them claiming it's not working correctly. Till we tested it ourselves and showed them it was working fine.

 

Maybe a case of testing it for yourself and moving the mics to get the best coverage? 

 

Sorry I'm not be a great help on this topic, Just giving you ideas hopefully

No problem at all! We were planning on testing it in the near future as well, hopefully that is the problem.