Forum Zoom #4, Friday, Feb 16, 2024, 18:00 UTC, 1:00 pm EST.

[Tom]

The next forum zoom will be Friday, Feb 16, 2024, 18:00 UTC, 1:00 pm EST.

Everyone is welcome. We’ll start with introductions, followed by “accordion talk” and solving all the problems of the world, then everyone is invited to play a tune or two or three. All fun, no judgment.

If you are unsure of, or are having trouble with your Zoom setup, please pm me, and we can try to work it out before the Zoom.

I will post the link here on Friday morning before the zoom. Thanks, hope to see you!

 

[JerryPH]

I am in, as mentioned.

 

[cestjeffici]

The next forum zoom will be Friday, Feb 16, 2024, 18:00 UTC, 1:00 pm EST.

Everyone is welcome. We’ll start with introductions, followed by “accordion talk” and solving all the problems of the world, then everyone is invited to play a tune or two or three. All fun, no judgment.

If you are unsure of, or are having trouble with your Zoom setup, please pm me, and we can try to work it out before the Zoom.

I will post the link here on Friday morning before the zoom. Thanks, hope to see you!

I'm in.

 

[dak]

Looks like I'll be there, too.

 

[Tom]

See you tomorrow!

 

[micahcowan]

I'll try to make it! ...but can only stay until about 45 minutes (to 18:45 UTC), as I have a meeting that begins at 11am PST.

 

[Siegmund]

I'll be thinking of you all while driving to a doctor's appointment. Hope to rejoin you for the next one.

 

[JerryPH]

waiting for the link... Sadly cannot play (I cut my finger last week and stupidly tried playing last night and split the finger and bled all over my 8X before I noticed... took me 30 minutes to clean it all off... lol)

I figure another week or so before I can start to play again, so I'll be in full "appreciation mode" for anyone else that wants to play for us, but I will be there!

 

[Tom]

Sorry to hear that Jerry. At least you didn't bleed all over the Gola

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[dak]

Sorry to hear that Jerry. At least you didn't bleed all over the Gola

Enough of his heartblood in that instrument already.

 

[Tom]

Thanks everyone! Another small (7 people) but great zoom. Some talking, some playing, some troubleshooting. We’ll get together again in 2 weeks, again on a Friday, March 1. I will start a new thread.

 

[saundersbp]

So sorry to miss it as I greatly enjoyed the one I attended.
I'm afraid Friday nights are social life times.

 

[micahcowan]

Had a very enjoyable time!

 

[dak]

So sorry to miss it as I greatly enjoyed the one I attended.
I'm afraid Friday nights are social life times.

We probably need to do some polling and figure out who has regular interfering activities on which weekdays (and possibly times).

 

[John M]

I love it -- so much info -- so -- many folks -- with so many back grounds.

I'm fairly flexible with my schedule. As long as I know in advance. I don't like 2 or 3 options unless a decision is made early enough, because I have to leave too many days open and I can't plan my personal schedule.

 

[Rodney]

The next forum zoom will be Friday, Feb 16, 2024, 18:00 UTC, 1:00 pm EST.

Everyone is welcome. We’ll start with introductions, followed by “accordion talk” and solving all the problems of the world, then everyone is invited to play a tune or two or three. All fun, no judgment.

If you are unsure of, or are having trouble with your Zoom setup, please pm me, and we can try to work it out before the Zoom.

I will post the link here on Friday morning before the zoom. Thanks, hope to see you!

Sorry I missed this, it sounds both interesting and fun. I’ll try to make the next one if I can get Zoom working on my iPad.

 

[dak]

Sorry I missed this, it sounds both interesting and fun. I’ll try to make the next one if I can get Zoom working on my iPad.

I think https://zoom.us/test offers you to test your setup without actually joining a meeting. The test session lasts only for about a minute or so and is pretty annoying, but in contrast to an actual session, you hear what you are producing. The one thing you need to be careful of is that this test session sets up your video and audio and then states "everything is working" with a popup window with the single button "End Test". Don't press that button but ignore the popup: this is the echo setup you need for actually checking your audio quality. So play your accordion and check what you are hearing back in response. While the session is on, you can actually click the hatchet next to your microphone or camera symbol and change settings around (like your audio source and the infamous "original sound for musicians" check mark, assuming you have it). As long as you leave the "End Test" popup alone...

 

[Rodney]

I think https://zoom.us/test offers you to test your setup without actually joining a meeting. The test session lasts only for about a minute or so and is pretty annoying, but in contrast to an actual session, you hear what you are producing. The one thing you need to be careful of is that this test session sets up your video and audio and then states "everything is working" with a popup window with the single button "End Test". Don't press that button but ignore the popup: this is the echo setup you need for actually checking your audio quality. So play your accordion and check what you are hearing back in response. While the session is on, you can actually click the hatchet next to your microphone or camera symbol and change settings around (like your audio source and the infamous "original sound for musicians" check mark, assuming you have it). As long as you leave the "End Test" popup alone...

Thanks Dak, I’ll give it a go

 

[John M]

dak, you are amazing with your detail !!!

You were a great help to me today, on the Zoom Meeting with that "musician setting" that kept toggling On/Off without me knowing about it and how to fix it.

Thanks -- John

 

[dak]

dak, you are amazing with your detail !!!

You were a great help to me today, on the Zoom Meeting with that "musician setting" that kept toggling On/Off without me knowing about it and how to fix it.

Thanks -- John

I tend to have a better grasp of how computers behave than humans. Funny thing is that my Zoom client on Linux does not even have that "original sound for musicians" setting (I don't think I have stereo available either).