[Lnc-business] record & stream next LNC meeting

[Scott L.]

If Mr. Katz did not intend to send the e-mail from Mr. Olsen to lnc-business
- sorry - it's too late.

I am sure that the Banquet and Meetings personnel at hotels that are vying
to hold our LNC Sessions know the dbA levels in their meeting rooms.

And if you believe that, I have a nice bridge that runs from Brooklyn to
Manhattan that I would like to sell you.

 

If we really need to pursue that angle, perhaps an electronically literate
LP member in the candidate citiy can bring a db meter to the hotels in
question and actually measure the ambient noise levels in the meeting rooms
that the hotel is offering to us.

However - do we really want to add yet another constraint that LPHQ staff
has to take into account while they are looking for a suitable hotel to hold
an LNC Session?

Are we LNC members willing to pay $20 more per room night just to get an
acoustically quiet meeting room?

 

It looks successfully transmitting the audio is not going to be easy.

I bet Mr. Olsen is not only LNC member who has heard of Shure:

http://cdn.shure.com/publication/upload/398/us_pro_audio_for_meetings_ea.pdf

 

"In addition to interference problems, the use of multiple microphones
creates other potential difficulties.

One of these is due to the fact that  as the number of active microphones in
a sound system increases, the overall 

potential for feedback also increases . And of course, each active
microphone is adding more ambient noise

pickup to the system.  This leads to a final general rule for microphone
use: Always use the minimum number of microphones. 

If additional microphones are not needed, they may actually degrade the
sound system. If the application can

be satisfied with one microphone, use one microphone!"

 

Good luck!

   Scott Lieberman 

 

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"To assist in analyzing sound quality, I have attached two sample audio
files.  The first is from the Chicago meeting which was held in a relatively
small and quiet room, and  the second from the Westin Alexandria meeting, a
relatively large and noisy room (and also exhibits the constant tweaking
necessary to obtain usable results).  The same equipment was used in both
cases.  The differences are significant.  In selecting venues for LNC
meetings in the future, we should insist on quiet rooms (ambient noise level
at 35 dbA or less), and arrange for the "rectangular table array" to be of
the smaller dimensions as was the case in Chicago.

     Norman T Olsen"

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