You may need to increase the number of microphones in your setup. For 6-8 people we use a minimum of 4 (crown) table top mics.
________________________________________________ At 04:39 PM 2/17/2005, Natalia Costas Lago wrote: >mmm.... that doesnt seem to be an acceptable solution for us. > >What I have experienced in our meetings is that we can have up to 6-8 >people talking to 2 supercardioid microphones and each of them speak at a >different level. It is too hard (impossible) for a tech to try to adjust >the level each time any of them speak (sometimes some of them at the same >time :)))). > >I recall a sentence I read in one of those accessgrid papers... "for the >tech to vanish...". That's what we want, the less a tech has to care about >the better. I think the XAP should be able to do AGC (automatic gain >control) if it is set properly. We do not have problems with noise level >increase if there is a proper threshold set, maybe.. do some other >problems appear?. > >Personally, what I get out of my experience is that I rather prefer our >system after enabling the AGC than before. But I think our settings can be >improved, that's why I am cc'ing clearone tech staff, they are the ones >who can tell us what we can get out of the XAP. > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > At 12:16 PM 2/17/2005, Natalia Costas Lago wrote: > >>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = > >>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = > >>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1 = > >>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"> > >> > >>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.kuc...@manchester.ac.uk>Paul Kuchar > >>To: <mailto:nata...@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 > >>=============================== > >>Manchester Computing, Kilburn Building > >>University of Manchester, M13 9PL, > >>United Kingdom > >>=============================== > >>Tel: +44(0)161-275 0668 > >>Fax: +44(0)161-275 6800 / 6040 > >>Email: > >><mailto:paul.kuc...@manchester.ac.uk>paul.kuc...@manchester.ac.uk > >> > >> > >>---------- > >>From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@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. > >> > >>----------------------------------- > >>Natalia Costas Lago > >>email: <mailto:nata...@cesga.es>nata...@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/ > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Tom Coffin .......................... tcof...@ncsa.uiuc.edu > > > > NCSA-ACCESS cel: 703-477-5948 > > 901 North Stuart Street, #800 tel: 703-248-0105 > > Arlington, Virginia 22203 fax: 703-248-0100 > > > > _________________________ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin > > > >----------------------------------- >Natalia Costas Lago >mailto: nata...@cesga.es > >Centro de Supercomputacion de Galicia (CESGA) >Avenida de Vigo, s/n Campus Sur >15705 Santiago de Compostela - SPAIN >Tel: +34 981 56 98 10 >Fax: +34 981 59 46 16 >http://www.cesga.es/ ___________________________________________________________ Tom Coffin .......................... tcof...@ncsa.uiuc.edu NCSA-ACCESS cel: 703-477-5948 901 North Stuart Street, #800 tel: 703-248-0105 Arlington, Virginia 22203 fax: 703-248-0100 _________________________ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin
