[Chicago] This Thursday July 12: ChiPy July Meeting at "1871"

[J. D. Jordan]

Thanks for doing these video's Carl!  Even if the presenters aren't
cooperating with them, they are nice for those of us who aren't able
to make it to the meeting.  And if you don't want to be assertive, I'm
sure Brian can be assertive for you, he's pretty good at that.

-Jeremiah Jordan

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
> Video maybe - I am getting things setup for SciPy, I leave tomorrow.
>
> Irony warning, the audio is pretty bad.  The level of the signal
> coming out of the laptop was way higher than the mic.  There wasn't a
> mixer that I could use to adjust it.   So I was having to flip my one
> control up and down trying to keep the laptop audio from clipping and
> the voice from being too soft.  Plus all the time that Adrian talked
> while his laptop was playing, he is pretty much drowned out.  which
> was very often.
>
> At some point I realized it could be fixed by having Adrian turn down
> the volume on his laptop, but I think that was near the end and I had
> pretty much given up.
>
> Chris had mic problems and when I said "wait" someone else said "just
> shout" and he did, so audio is crap there too.
>
> Josh faked me out by starting his talk from the middle table so he
> could use a beer bottle as a prop.  remember running back from the
> front of the room, I think Cezar started things, I have no idea.
>
> I guess I need to be more assertive about doing sound checks and such.
>  It will a bit disruptive, but will cut down on stuff like this
> happening, so probably a net win.