[AG-TECH] Idea for a feature

[Jay Beavers]

What I've found useful to do for this is to use a laptop configured as a
node and wear an encompassing headset.  This way not only can you hear
your own sound locally, but if you can use the laptop wirelessly then
you can walk around the room to find dead spots.

Another trick I've used for this is to buy an IR headset for $30 and
attach it to another set of outputs which have been set in GWare to
duplicate the outbound signal.  In this case, you don't even need a
second laptop node and you can still walk around the room to be your own
mobile sound source.

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From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf Of jski at blargh.wpi.edu
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:46 PM
To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: [AG-TECH] Idea for a feature

I was noticing that there is a quite a range of volume levels in use by
the
various nodes/PIGs etc. What if there existed a service or application,
bound to the test room that would tell you when your volume was set
correctly. It would be sort of like being able to look at the VU meters
in
RAT at the remote location. If everyone were able to set their level
against
a standard meter then there would be less of a problem of too much or
not
enough volume when you got into a meeting. You also would not require a
remote node to test with every time you changed a setting (yes, we still
need the test runs to make sure...) Could be handy for initial settings.

A second idea was for some sort of audio reflector. Some sort of delay,
say
10 seconds or so and it sends back whatever you sent to it exactly as it
recieved it. This would be useful for adjusting your settings to prevent
clipping, distortion, gate problems, ambient noise issues, etc. The
audio
reflector wouldn't be so good for setting gain levels though since I
could
compensate for low transmit levels with high recieve levels and think
all
was well until I got into a meeting.... that is where the first
application
would save the day.

Just an idea...

-- Joe

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Joseph M. Krzeszewski		            Network Operations
jski at wpi.edu   			 Jack of All Trades, Master of None...
Yet