Wednesday, February 1. 2006

TAM4: Panel 1

Here’s the first panel from TAM4, featuring: Nadine Strossen, Randi, Carolyn Porco, Murray Gell-Mann, Lawrence O’Donnell, Penn Jillette, Michael Shermer, Leon Jarroff

During this panel, the sound system at the Stardust crapped out. Penn annoucned that he is loud enough to serve as amplification for everyone, and after alittle prompting began telling a joke. That man is incredibly loud; the crowd of 800+ people could hear him perfectly well (in contrast to a few of the people with mics on the panel that you can barely hear.) After this, there was a 5 minute break while they sawed the audio engineers in half. I’ve edited things back together, but wanted to leave in Penn’s antics, so if it seems confusing, that’s why.

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2006-02-02 22:29
reader said:

Lawrence O’Donnell was not there.

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2006-02-02 23:01
jer said:

Thanks. I was really wishing I had taken notes and opted to just copy the schedule verbatim.

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2006-02-03 00:13
Mason said:

I can’t hear a goddamn thing.

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2006-02-03 08:50
jer said:

It is a little quiet, but far from silent. Do you mean you cant hear anything, or that it’s too quiet for you to comfortably listen to?

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2006-02-03 05:35
Richard said:

Nope. Can’t hear anything either.

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2006-02-03 09:26
Tim said:

Audio is horrible. Do any better recordings exist?

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2006-02-03 10:24
jer said:

None that I know of.

Some of the talks are better than others, but I don’t think they’re really that bad. There are several problems involved: firstly, the sound at the Stardust was awful. Secondly, I was recording from the crowd, which obviously gets alot of crowd noise. On many of the talks I’ve done my best to minimise the bursts of clapping so that the overall audio can be higher without deafening anyone, but you’re going to have to turn it up.

This is one of the worst examples, most of the panel wasn’t properly mic’d, so it was hard to hear, even when actually in the room.

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