What was the most recent upgrade you made to your AV setup?

[MarinaT]

Hey there instructors,

It’s always exciting to upgrade your setup, and we want to hear more about it!

What was the most recent upgrade you made to your AV setup? 

Whether it's a shiny new microphone, a sleek camera upgrade, or even just a small tweak to your lighting setup, we want to hear about it!

Share your new upgrades below.

[Anonymous]

Not trying to record everything in the absolute highest possible quality possible. Most people can't see the difference between 720p60 and 4K, not even with phone and computer screens capable of it. I have found in all my years teaching that if you can take something hard that someone wants to learn and explain it in a way that makes it really easy for them to understand so that they are really getting it and are getting motivated and fired up to keep going, you can be sitting in front of them with ketchup on your shirt, your hair messed up, and smelling bad, and they'll go around telling everyone you're weird, but the best teacher they've ever had.

I think social media has led us to believe we have to be a movie star to say something valuable, and it just isn't true.

Stopping worrying about extreme levels of quality was the best tweak I ever made.

[Praveenkumar]

A pillow behind the mic works wonders. 

I recently moved to a new home, and my computer table setup leads to echo while using Blue Yeti (with boom arm). As I needed to start recording for a course quickly, I tried the simple trick of keeping a pillow behind the mic, and I was satisfied with the quick-fix result it achieved. 

[chrisworfolk]

I'm in the process of replacing my old lights with LED ones to give me greater control over the colour. The Rotolight ones are great.

[DiogoAlvesd487]

I got the Shure SM7dB mic to improve my audio. Love it so far 🙂

[StevanBeslac71]

As students in majority use the earphones, sound quality can make a big impact on user experience. My biggest investment was in microphone and sound mixer for this purpose. So, I can encourage anyone to invest in this piece of equipment as soon as they can.

[ExecCoachLeila]

 I recently bought the El Gato Facecam Pro. Worth every penny. So easy to use. I love it. 

[FahadMasood]

I just bought Sony zv1 camera and some lighting and a green screen to improve the quality of my videos

[JeffSharman592]

I have not made any upgrades to my AV recently. The quality is good and I use the NCH software for Audio clean up, Video recording, Still photo editing and Video editing. I find it is very effective, inexpensive and very easy to use.