[AG-TECH] XAP setup - urgent

[Tom Coffin]

We run into people with different speaking levels
a lot during meetings here at ACCESS. The way we handle it
is to try and identify a microphone for the soft spoken speaker
and boost the fine gain control for it using gware.


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At 12:16 PM 2/17/2005, Natalia Costas Lago wrote:
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>Hi Paul,
>
>I think we do really need the AGC settings, the audio levels are 
>uncontrolled without it. We avoid echo issues with them, maybe do you use 
>the Compressor feature?.
>
>There is some trouble with people that speak louder or lower. I think 
>there has to be a right way to set it...
>I am CC'ing clearone tech guys, maybe they have some advice?
>
>Kind regards,
>Natalia.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:Paul.Kuchar at manchester.ac.uk>Paul Kuchar
>To: <mailto:natalia at cesga.es>'Natalia Costas Lago'
>Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:54 PM
>Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] XAP setup - urgent
>
>Dear Natalia,
>We advise AG nodes to use the default value of OFF for AGC/SL as trying to 
>configure it causes all kinds of strange audio noises.
>
>This is also the advice from inSORS.
>
>AGC tries to control the gain and SL expands the sound of anything quiet.
>Unless you make any progress with the parameters, try switching AGC/SL off.
>
>Regards,
>Paul Kuchar, AGSC
>Collaborative Working Developments
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>Email: <mailto:Paul.Kuchar at manchester.ac.uk>Paul.Kuchar at manchester.ac.uk
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>From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On 
>Behalf Of Natalia Costas Lago
>Sent: 17 February 2005 16:25
>To: ag-tech
>Subject: [AG-TECH] XAP setup - urgent
>
>
>
>Dear all,
>
>
>We are quite in an emergency: our inauguration is about to happen (25th 
>february). And we still have too many audio problems. I've followed some 
>advices given here and given by te people from clearone and they helped us 
>to understand the proceedings to configure the XAP settings. However there 
>are some issues still. I hope someone out there with much experience in 
>this equipment (and in audio systems) could help us:
>
>- We would like to know how to set the best AGC parameters (most 
>importance) and Gating parameters. I think proper AGC settings would solve 
>a big part of our problems.
>- The group the mics belong is set to none, I hope this involves only 
>gating issues (we want to hear whatever speaker wanna say, so we are not 
>interested in priority of one mic over another mic). May we have any 
>problems derived from this point?
>
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanx a lot.
>Kind regards.
>
>Natalia.
>
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>Natalia Costas Lago
>email: <mailto:natalia at cesga.es>natalia at cesga.es
>
>Centro de Supercomputacion de Galicia (CESGA)
>Avenida de Vigo, s/n Campus Sur
>15706 Santiago de Compostela - SPAIN
>Tel:   +34  981 56 98 10
>Fax:  +34  981 59 46 16
><http://www.cesga.es/>http://www.cesga.es/


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