07-24-2020, 10:43 PM
Near Oxford, UK. Perhaps a good 'control' simple use case. I have been practicing virtually with our band singer who lives a few hundred metres away, and we plan to bring others on board for all the reasons (saving expense and inconvenience of practices, leading to more frequent practices and better quality performances . . .).
Whatever the metrics, we have consistently had very satisfactory vox-and-keys sessions over the last couple of months except for a popping noise from the vox, but also some dropouts at the vocalist end which I don't seem to have experienced at the keys end. My (keys) provider is a local microwave provider typically 60mbps down and 40mbps up possibly with an unusual contention profile. The vox provider is a fibre supplier with similar figures but probably a larger customer base owing to greater uptake - this got established later than the microwave provision which serves people who desperately needed broadband ahead of the fibre provision.
So the quality of service should be comparable at either end. We did have some sessions including players from the US, Germany and Netherlands which went OK except for latency on the Michigan leg and one Germany participant who recognised that his equipment was the probable cause.
Our 2-person use case seemed set to be perfect when we went to Focusrite 2i2 (ASIO) interfaces at both end but we now notice 'popping' on the vox, about to be trouble-shot by swapping mics tomorrow. Eminently workable as a 2-person low-separation distance practice capability right now, will update with any discoveries from the mic-swap and subsequent activities. Video brilliant including lip-synch.
I think my bottom line is - robust for low-separation duos once a pro interface is in use! Thank you JamKazam!
Whatever the metrics, we have consistently had very satisfactory vox-and-keys sessions over the last couple of months except for a popping noise from the vox, but also some dropouts at the vocalist end which I don't seem to have experienced at the keys end. My (keys) provider is a local microwave provider typically 60mbps down and 40mbps up possibly with an unusual contention profile. The vox provider is a fibre supplier with similar figures but probably a larger customer base owing to greater uptake - this got established later than the microwave provision which serves people who desperately needed broadband ahead of the fibre provision.
So the quality of service should be comparable at either end. We did have some sessions including players from the US, Germany and Netherlands which went OK except for latency on the Michigan leg and one Germany participant who recognised that his equipment was the probable cause.
Our 2-person use case seemed set to be perfect when we went to Focusrite 2i2 (ASIO) interfaces at both end but we now notice 'popping' on the vox, about to be trouble-shot by swapping mics tomorrow. Eminently workable as a 2-person low-separation distance practice capability right now, will update with any discoveries from the mic-swap and subsequent activities. Video brilliant including lip-synch.
I think my bottom line is - robust for low-separation duos once a pro interface is in use! Thank you JamKazam!