Tuesday, October 29, 2013

AGC (Auto Gain Controlled) Microphone


The idea of having an AGC mic came from us trying to think of ways people would use EFeel products. One of the questions we were faced with was “what if someone just wants to do something that looks awesome but doesn’t have the knowledge or time to create a sequence on Vixen?” From that we thought that our product should respond to the environment so the users don’t have to do anything and it would still look really cool.


AGC stands for “Auto Gain Controlled” which means it will adjust the volume of the mic without any user input needed. For example when using a camera to record in a club and playing back the footage the sound is horrible because it was so loud that mic was clipping. We also see this happens with those shirts that have a light up picture on them that respond to sound. When it’s too quiet it doesn’t work and when it is too loud it just stays on all the time. To make sure the microphone feature works in almost all environment it will adjust its gain (volume) based on the environment. This way the user can just show up to parties or any other events and the lights will respond to the surrounding sounds without any adjustment needed by the user.


So you may ask how is our progress on our cool AGC mic feature…
I can say it is on the next prototype that is going to be shipped out very soon. Other than that we are crossing our fingers.



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