[AG-TECH] Mute switch for AG.

[John I Quebedeaux Jr]

I've noticed this phenomenon on the gentner because of one mic I tend 
to plug and unplug before and after meetings (podium which rolls around 
the room, i plug the mic in for AG meetings only) and wasn't quite sure 
why it was that the audio was off afterwards - I would reload the 
gentner settings when I noticed that mic wasn't echo cancelling... to 
fix it quickly. Now I know why thanks to this discussion!

I think I just read about on a Shure mic they have documentation of how 
to literally alter the circuit board on the microphone to accomodate 
the muting from the gentner rather than muting at the microphone itself 
for just this reason.

Someone had mentioned putting microphones from the ceiling... but the 
Shure site does NOT recommend this. Pros and cons... I have a room I'm 
designing where the tables will be moved all over the place any given 
time. Should I just go with wireless table boundary mics or consider 
ceiling mics or just deal with wiring the mics to the tables as needed? 
Thoughts on this one? (sorry, sidetrack from the original discussion)

-John Q.
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John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.
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On Mar 24, 2004, at 2:30 PM, bernholdtde at ornl.gov wrote:
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>  On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:33:51 -0700  Cindy Sievers wrote:
>> An easy solution is to use mics that have on/off buttons
>
>  No, please don't do that!  The time for the Gentner to re-train
>  may
>  sound short on paper but during an actual meeting, it is a highly
>  disruptive eternity for the participants.  Use muting on the
>  Gentner
>  or on the RAT instead.
>
>  In my experience, audio is still the least robust (and of course
>  the
>  most important) part of an AG meeting -- it is highly dependent on
>  the
>  individuals involved in the meeting (especially if there is a
>  phone
>  bridge) and it is not usually practical to spend much time
>  testing/tuning audio with the actual participants (they want to
>  get to
>  work).  I don't have a magic solution, but the more we all avoid
>  anything that can contribute to audio problems, the better off
>  we'll
>  all be. (Of course a single site with audio problems is enough to
>  disrupt the meeting for all participants.)
>
>  P.S.  I'm not picking on Cindy here.  There are a number of sites
>  with
>  whom I've specifically experienced problems due to locally-muted
>  mics,
>  but I don't recall LANL ever being one of them.
>  --
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