[clue-admin] Feedback from the CLUE Conference system's first run

[Crawford Rainwater]

----- "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote: -----
> 
> Sound:
> 
> Whenever the sound channel played into the room, we got some pretty
> bad feedback-echo-looping. I'm not sure how the sound was at the
> receiver end, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't disappointing whenever
> Dave left the podium. Maybe a wireless microphone and amplification
> system, with a monitor near the meeting sensors, would be a good
> investment?
> 

Actually to have a remote mic or a podium mic for the presenter to directly speak that does not pick up the presenter might resolve this issue.  My notes mentioned similar echo issues from the "viewers", so it is a question of probably just the mic "focus" and not picking up everything else.  This is common when using a laptop with speakers and a mic built in where the laptop user speaks, the sound is piped through the system and thus the laptop speakers, the mic picks up that audio single, hence "echo" effect.  A headset with earphones resolves this typically.

> Video:
> 
> I'm getting one of these next week:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UY1OMY
> My hope is that it will enhance the remote learning experience here at
> PARSEC, but maybe it could be useful to CLUE, too.
> I'll let you know how mine works out. If it doesn't pan out ("pan",
> get it?), I'll probably return or re-sell it, and go to the HD webcam.
> 

Cute on the humor, yes. ;-)  

Comments from another using a web camera was that would have a different using a "higher end" vs. "lower end" at the presenter's workstation as well as perhaps an audience member doing another perspective.

--- Crawford

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