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I am having some trouble with the audio trigger function with my golf simulator.

Computer to golf ball area is about 20ft so to get away from more wires laying, I decided to try a wireless mic setup. Will test good talking into it but I found that even laying it by ball it just doesn't want to pickup the sound. I have to adjust it down to 1 on sensitivity to work and even then it doesn't catch it alot.

I then purchased a cheap usb mic thinking maybe the wireless delay is the issue. I couldn't get it to pickup the impact sound at all. Only talking.

Back to wireless I went but it's so sporadic it doesn't work good. Seems if I go into settings to test sound and then re save it'll work better for a few times and then won't pickup again. Very weird.

I'm looking for help. I need something reliable to pickup audio trigger. What am I doing wrong?

2 Reply by joan

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So it picks up voice correctly but not the ball impact, at roughly the same volume? I'm not sure but maybe there is some sort of clipping of high frequencies or maybe it's even a feature of the microphone to remove high pitched "clicks" which are normally undesirable in voice communication? See if there is any sort of "helpful" noise filtering that you could disable.

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I have been all through the settings with no luck. That's exactly what it seems like. The high pitch split second sound just doesn't register.

Can talk just fine into it

4 Reply by petecrowe

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Are you using a desktop or laptop? How old is it? Does it have a modern (ver. 3.0 or above) USB or even USB C port or thunderbolt port?

The faster the transmission speeds the greater chance you'll get something with low latency, and that's going to be important for what you are using it for. And I'd recommend not going too cheap.

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Brand new HP gaming laptop just for this. C port and all. Has tons of power

Old one was crashing when using Kinovea and Skytrak together.

Seems alot like a Kinovea issue to me. The mic sometimes just stops working and can go into settings re save or restart it all and it'll work for a bit. Having a hard time tracing down the real issue.

Just know the usb mic isn't any better