I went down to The Liverpool Art Prize Launch at Metal in Edge Hill train station the other week and forced myself to have a go at Ustream'ing it. I tried to convince myself out of it but it didn't wash with me. I set up on a desk near the stage, cheap £40 camera, firewire and my USB microphone. I had background material and still shots all set up and away i went chatting to everyone. All was going well until i realised that the sound from the microphone wasn't being picked up by Ustream (See below) - it was meant to use the pictures from the camera and the sound from the usb microphone, but it insisted that it wanted to use the audio from the camera.

I was using the Free version of Ustream Producer and this does appear to be a bit of an issue on the the Ustream forum, I have managed to work out why now though as it appears that you need to assign the USB audio to the USB Codec before you start streaming. Simple really. So simple I'm really confident about how to do it - so I have said we will Ustream the next Rock and Roll podcast recording