Hi, maybe you can help me with some tech suggestions. At my local scouts troop I’m one of only a few guitar players. At camp fires I play the guitar and provide lead vocals, so that others can follow (which is important especially for songs, that are not well known). Because only a few can sit directly beside me and others might talk in parallel, I need to sing very loud, to give an orientation, which makes me hoarse way faster.
I would like to have something, that amplifies my voice, with decent quality (so no megaphone), a microphone fixed to my clothes or my head (as I need to play the guitar in parallel) and being portable (easy to carry, relatively small and powered via battery). I am able to spend like 200€ for it (300€ would be the hard upper limit). I can also build something myself, though I would need orientation on what to build exactly. I don’t have experience with audio electronics, but with microcontrollers.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Fitness instructors use this kind of wireless microphone / speaker combo and the latency/ fidelity is ok . I don’t have any specific recommendations.
Before Soundboks went industrial they made portable speakers for festival goers by hooking a speaker up to car batteries and putting it in a nice box. I imagine you can get a nice setup following their footsteps. Unfortunately Soundboks is more than twice your budget so I can’t recommend them on that alone, but a cheap second-hand speaker (or some drivers and an empty box so you can fit batteries inside too), a car battery, and a cheap microphone should be doable below €200-€300.
An app to turn your phone into a Bluetooth microphone.
And a construction workers’ radio like this https://amzn.eu/d/hZ8EuTH
or one of these typical jbl boomboxes.
Do you know, how the latency is for that typically? Any noticeable delay would create problems with the normally transmitted voice.
Just tried a few out and yes, the latency is very noticeable. I wouldn’t be able to sing with it.