[AG-TECH] Mute switch for AG.

[Monika Rabarison]

We have been doing the same at JSU as Jennifer is saying turning on and 
off the mikes. Never noticed any delay either.

Monika

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Jennifer Teig von Hoffman wrote:

> 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.
> > --
> > David E. Bernholdt                   |   Email: bernholdtde at ornl.gov 
> > Oak Ridge National Laboratory        |   Phone: +1 (865) 574 3147    
> > http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~bernhold/   |   Fax:   +1 (865) 574 0680    
> 

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