KerrMetric
New Member
I'd like to make a few suggestions to improve the show. Most of them are of technical nature.
If you don't talk, mute your microphone
It's hard enough to follow the show with all the delays, sound hiccups and bad sound quality. So if you feel like you have to type on your keyboard while others talk, click around with your mouse, rummage through your room etc. mute your microphone first. All this extra noise is terribly distracting and can easily be avoided by a little self-discipline.
Be in a quiet environment
Sorry AronRa, that screeching parrot in the background is simply unbearable.
Have an extra person screen the callers before they go on air
This way you can make sure the callers have a working microphone and wear headphones. It would also help to filter out inept prank callers and shorten the delays skype seems to cause at a connect. I don't have much experience with skype, does it feature private talks during a conference call?
Use a dedicated voice server
You can still have your callers use skype, but the people of the league should better use a separate dedicated voice server to connect to. This way if skype crashes at least you guys stay on the air and only the caller gets dropped. Whoever will run the single required instance of skype has to feed the audio output of skype into the ventrilo/teamspeak/whatever client and vice-versa, but I'm sure you tech savvy guys can figure a way out. It might require virtual soundcards to connect the two programs.
Use your forenames
This is more of a pet peeve of mine. Listening to a conversation where all the persons are addressed by clumsy youtube names and acronyms is just alien to me. If you are concerned about your privacy make a name up.
If you don't talk, mute your microphone
It's hard enough to follow the show with all the delays, sound hiccups and bad sound quality. So if you feel like you have to type on your keyboard while others talk, click around with your mouse, rummage through your room etc. mute your microphone first. All this extra noise is terribly distracting and can easily be avoided by a little self-discipline.
Be in a quiet environment
Sorry AronRa, that screeching parrot in the background is simply unbearable.
Have an extra person screen the callers before they go on air
This way you can make sure the callers have a working microphone and wear headphones. It would also help to filter out inept prank callers and shorten the delays skype seems to cause at a connect. I don't have much experience with skype, does it feature private talks during a conference call?
Use a dedicated voice server
You can still have your callers use skype, but the people of the league should better use a separate dedicated voice server to connect to. This way if skype crashes at least you guys stay on the air and only the caller gets dropped. Whoever will run the single required instance of skype has to feed the audio output of skype into the ventrilo/teamspeak/whatever client and vice-versa, but I'm sure you tech savvy guys can figure a way out. It might require virtual soundcards to connect the two programs.
Use your forenames
This is more of a pet peeve of mine. Listening to a conversation where all the persons are addressed by clumsy youtube names and acronyms is just alien to me. If you are concerned about your privacy make a name up.