Monday 06/05/2023
Took the standard walk; it went fine. Saw a Lucid parked on Alma street, looking a bit dirty and neglected which is odd for a very expensive car.
At 10 I went down to the auditorium to set up for a Book Talk. The speaker was Nancy who is a very smart and together type, and she gave a terrific talk. Really interesting, about her work in enhancing women’s rights (which are human rights, she reminded us).
I had recorded the talk, not via Zoom but just direct from our camera and sound system into my #2 Macbook. After lunch I put together the final version of it which will be available at this link for a few days at least until it is moved to our Vimeo channel.
As an A/V event it came off quite well. I learned a lesson, though. At 10:45, with about 6 people in the room, I set Nancy up with her mic, and set the level to what seemed like plenty loud. But when she actually started talking at 11am, with about 70 people in the seats, people yelled, “Speak up! Can’t hear!”. Human bodies act like acoustic tiles and just soak up sound. So before the event, set the mic levels “too high” to have it come out right when the audience is in their seats.
That was about it for the day.
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