On Aug 10, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Laryn Lohman wrote: > Nate, your comments about compression and bad-sounding audio coming > in from IRLP just goes to show, at least in part, that improperly > set-up compression/AGC sounds bad. >
Totally agreed. I have been fighting improperly built/designed AGC's in telco for years. (Imagine a glass-walled conference room. Why do people put glass walls in conference rooms anyway?! Looks pretty, but totally impractical for audio engineering... LOL! Also worked for a place that built completely CIRCULAR conference rooms, and then put the speakerphones in the center of the table. Yeah... you can probably guess what that sounded like... and how shocked everyone was that the solution was, "Move the phone over here...", as you slide it to the edge of the table... sigh. Other favorites have been room mics in the ceiling right next to HVAC outlets, um... let's see... what else... oh, there's more than I can even remember. Kinda freaky when you can just have someone call you can you can recognize them by how they sound, too... "Oh, you have X microphone and it's near the corner of the room, right?") -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com
