[AG-TECH] Mute switch for AG.

Jennifer Teig von Hoffman jtvh at bu.edu
Wed Mar 24 15:13:28 CST 2004


Hmm, what causes the Gentner to re-train or not re-train? We've been 
using mics with on/off switches for years, and have never noticed any 
delay between turning them on and them being useful.

- Jennifer

bernholdtde at ornl.gov wrote:

> 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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