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Where to Position the Lavaliere Microphone
Lavaliere microphones, also called lapel mics, are essential for speakers at any event over 10 people. An incorrectly placed lavaliere can adversely affect the audio portion of your meeting. For...
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Cooking with Raster & Vector Graphics
Ok, so this is often an issue that comes up when we need logos from clients. We ask for vector logos, but we’re sent raster ones. What’s the difference you ask? Well, here is a brief explanation… This...
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Choosing a Venue (with AV in Mind)
Here are a few items to consider when choosing a venue that are important to the audio visual success of your meeting. Is the hotel a union hotel and are the union fees applicable to AV? Some hotels...
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RGB vs CMYK
What is the difference between RGB and CMYK? RGB and CMYK are scales used to calculate color values. Everyone always learned that red yellow and blue are the primary colors. That’s kinda true. It works...
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Rear Projection vs Front Projection?
Front projection simply means that the projector is somewhere in front of the screen. Either the projector is on a small skirted table on the floor, or it is hanging from the ceiling on a hanging truss...
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Screen Size: Rules of Thumb
When considering a room for an event that requires projection the first thing to note is the ceiling height and the placement of the chandeliers. In larger ballrooms this will not be a problem cause...
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Paying for Board Tape!?
What the heck is board tape? you ask. We’ll tell you what it is, and why you shouldn’t pay for it. It’s masking tape everybody. Masking tape. For any meeting with speakers or microphones. you should...
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What is audio feedback?
Audio feedback occurs when the sound from the speakers is projected back into the microphone, re-amplified and sent through the speakers again, like this: Don't let this happen to you! This loop...
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What do Meeting Planners Eat?
After years of quiet observation and study, we think we’ve correctly identified the food and nutrition structure of the Meetingus Planerius. Otherwise known as the North American Meeting Planner. Our...
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Who Turned Out the Lights?
Good lighting is an often overlooked, but important part of many meetings. Lights aimed towards a presenter, or panel of speakers, are usually referred to as a “wash”. It could be a podium wash only if...
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Resizing an image
You would think that resizing any image is easy enough. After all, you grab a corner and drag, right? But then your image ends up looking a little too stretched out or disproportioned. Well, there’s a...
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Fly & Dine & Dash
Some might say that restaurants are great places to have meetings. Some would not. In fact some people might take their leftover namebadge lanyards and tie those other people down to their office...
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Painting the Town with Pantone
Most company branding have specific PMS or Pantone Matching System colors that ensure a client that wherever the logo is printed the colors will stay consistent. For example our company pantone is PMS...
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Eating Healthy on the Road: Part 1
These are some helpful tips that may help you while trying to eat healthy on the road. Probably one of the first things I would usually preach is WATER! – you can’t get enough of it. I usually try to...
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What the Heck is FEBO?
FEBO? What the Heck is POSH? Good question, detached voice! POSH is a term for all that is fancy, elegant or fashionable. But the term really came from a little mnemonic device that ocean-bound...
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So, how many people can I fit into this room?
Have you ever noticed how a standard size meeting room may seem so large and spacious for 100+ attendees seated theater style, but when a last minute decision to have a classroom setting suddenly...
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Ideal Room Series–Part I
Anyone in our industry knows how important it is to have the ideal room, regardless of the size of the meeting. Many aspects go into this perfect room so first let’s talk about the actual room size....
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Ideal Room Series–Part II
Last time in our Ideal Room Series: Part I we talked about the importance of the actual dimensions of the room, not just the square footage. Another very important piece of information that is often...
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