Tuesday 06/17/2025
Did a couple things in the morning: there’s some old equipment from the green room that I wanted Sandy to get rid of by giving away on NextDoor, so I organized the info on those and took some pictures of them and got it to her on a USB drive. And scheduled the next AV team meeting for next week. And wrote about 1000 words for the writers group.
Then the writers group meeting, and then it was lunch time. One medical item; when I got blood tests the other day they gave me a stool sample kit, and today I got around to getting that sample, so after the writers group I drove up to PAMF and turned the sample in. Then I started my laundry, which I have moved from Wednesdays to Fridays and now to Tuesdays.
While the first load was running I went to the auditorium and ran an experiment with zoom that I have been wanting to run. I put a monitor speaker on the stage and drove it from my phone playing music (Benny Goodman, actually). Then I started a zoom event and took my second laptop out to the lobby to be a remote attendee at this musical event. And like I feared, the music sounded like shit. Zoom does horrible things to audio, I presume to compress the bandwidth? Whatever, though the music sounded great in the auditorium, it was not fit to listen to, remotely.
This is not good as we have requests to send Auditorium events to our nursing center across the campus, using zoom.
Well if you look at the audio settings in the zoom app on your laptop, there are some options that should fix it, like the option “Use original sound for musicians”. But in our situation the sound from the microphones in the auditorium is funneled through a Zoom Room box. That’s a special automated client meant for remote meetings. I searched its menus and I could not find any sort of audio settings like that.
Then it was time for the Car Free meeting and I helped Lou the orgqnizer, set up his slides on the big screen. And then back to finish the laundry.
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