Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

Saturday, April 25, 2026

The Odessa Board of Aldermen meeting on April 25, 2026, focused entirely on resolving technical difficulties with the audio system, specifically addressing sound looping and feedback issues during the live stream. The board members and staff worked to identify and correct the source of the audio problems.

About this meeting

Government Body
Board of Aldermen
Meeting Type
Board Of Aldermen
Location
Odessa, MO
Meeting Date
April 25, 2026

Transcript

25 sections (from 85 segments)

7:37 – 8:12Speaker 1

mics here or something. We'll speak into it. Testing one, two, three. I think so. Testing one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Well, I was looking at that kind. I kind of see that as I looked back here. I kind of saw it falling. So that usually means that I got that I had some kind of sound. Um, I was thinking about

8:24 – 8:37Speaker 1

Well, here I'll I'll speak into it here. This is really close. Um, I don't hear a whole lot of Oh, that's right. The master volume is kind of down, but that doesn't really matter. We'll bring that up and see if that changes

8:44 – 9:37Speaker 1

on your we might try to mute one of those. Um I think that your computer actually is your microphone in that computer. And so if that's on, that can actually get sound through there that that could cause it. I was trying to think about possible reasons as to why this or why it would have so many problems. I mean, look, we'll yeah throw up to you here. We'll see what happens and see if it gets any worse.

9:34 – 10:08Speaker 1

Testing one, two, three. This is me speaking into the other using. Yeah. But then what happened was like the mics were really low.

10:05 – 10:50Speaker 1

Well, okay. This thing right here that that's an effects that's an effects return. So, if I sit there and see if if I'm speaking into this here and if I bring this up and I'm going to bring this up way high, it brings it up. But what that does, that is actually a reverb. So, you actually want to keep these down as much as you can because that will cause a Yeah. So, what we want to probably do is ox send. Oh, okay. There we go. What you want to do is go to your auxend here. Live stream. This is really, really low.

10:48 – 11:32Speaker 1

That That should probably be more like about here. We'll bring that up and we'll see. We're going to push and see what'll happen because now I'm speaking into this. This should bring that up and we'll see. We're going to push and see what will happen. Now I'm speaking in this. Yeah, that's that's a lot better. And actually, you can kind of see there it's it's actually there we go. Now we're getting some nasty sound. Do you see that? That's actually that um it's feeding back. That's distortion. So we've got some problem here. So that's what we need to then kind of bring down a little bit. That's distortion.

11:37 – 12:13Speaker 1

Testing one. Test one. Nobody should be yelling louder than that. I mean, if they are, maybe he needs to distort. Okay. Kind of keep an eye on there. I'm going to speak into some of these and make sure that it doesn't testing. One, two, three. Did it hit that red? Turn that one down a little bit. Let's see here. Some kind of nasty sound.

12:21 – 12:38Speaker 1

It's been doing that, too. I don't know. For some reason, every time I hit it, it's trying to re Oh, connected. Use this network as should be. Okay. What were you in?

12:42 – 13:27Speaker 1

Everything's a split second behind. There we go. That should help a lot. We'll bring this down a little bit. And maybe that is just simply too high. So testing one, two, three. Test. One, two, three. Um, let's see these here. I think let's go ahead and I think you can just hit that X there and you should be able to mute,

13:26 – 14:00Speaker 1

right? Or no. Oh, no. I'm sorry. That's not That's not Oh, is this Oh, this is I'm sorry. We need Can we go to you uh OBS? I'm sorry. OBS. Oh, that is OBS. Oh, I I forgot this is Facebook and YouTube are a little bit different. So, click the volume than it needed. Yes. And that's what we want to do is we want to just mute I guess mute those two mic and ox. And then we'll just have that video controller device. Okay.

13:59 – 14:26Speaker 1

And we'll just see what that does. So testing one, two, three. There is it is actually looping back around. So that's That's what a problem. That's the That's the problem. And I'm not 100% sure as to what could cause that.

14:29 – 14:41Speaker 1

This one and that volume was up, but we're going to see if this now changes a little if anything. It's kind of a strange thing because um

14:44 – 15:07Speaker 1

It's kind of a strange thing. Still going. Still there. Okay. Less though. It may be. I mean, yeah, it's a little less. I'm not Is there anything else on Still a little Is there anything else?

15:12 – 15:54Speaker 1

Let's go to FX. We'll make sure. No. Oh. That was still white on there. Let's turn that one down all the way. Effects delay. Let's see if this does it. I'm just bringing down all these you do not need any effects on this place. I mean, if you were doing a uh like a recording, then you might need something like that. But honestly, difference Yeah, my voice is still layering on top of itself. How is that happening?

15:58Speaker 1

How is that? This is the This is YouTube.

21:38Speaker 1

OBS like that. There we go.

21:50 – 22:06Speaker 1

And it's still looping. Okay, this is disarmable. Oh, no. That's fine. I'm good.

22:13Speaker 1

The sound coming in through here really isn't all that hot.

22:23 – 22:36Speaker 1

Really picking that up from that distance. I know. That's what I'm thinking. That's kind of amazing. There has to be something else on there. So, should we turn off the mics and see what happens?

22:42 – 23:19Speaker 1

I don't think Oh, did I turn it off? I thought I just turned on those three. We'll see if that does any difference there. Testing one, two, three. So, we just have one microphone.

23:21 – 23:56Speaker 1

It's still looping. Okay. Okay. change things a little bit. This may force another Oh,

24:04 – 24:24Speaker 1

so one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. sound from here is going through the microphone and coming back through that. That's Yeah. Okay. So, I'll go outside.

24:22 – 25:17Speaker 1

Try that. Let's try that and see if that works. I'll continue speaking. Um and we'll see if that I'm not 100% sure, but I I think that might actually be it. We might have been running ourselves in circles here for So, testing one, two, three. I'm just speaking with one microphone on and apparently it's picking up just fine from one microphone which is kind of strange. We need to wait for about 7 seconds to see if it starts looping. So I'm going to stop now. I don't know if that is being heard or if it's silent, but testing. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

25:19 – 26:03Speaker 1

No looping. Okay, the echo we probably fix by turning off those other ones. fooled by the fact that it was just 7sec delay on there and these microphones are that good that just one person speaking and that little tiny speaker can actually move right back through it again. So that's probably what was happening at least on that respect. I'm I'm pretty sure that by turning off those other ones we did a good that's a good thing. Yeah, we don't need all those things on. Okay. And um like I say definitely that desktop audio should be off. So that one should be off.

26:00 – 26:38Speaker 1

I took this one here and I turned on that mic aux, but I told it, okay, that is Blackmagic Design. So it doesn't matter which one of these is on. Just make sure it's not both on. But either one of these can be on and it'll be fine. It's that one you probably want to make sure is off because I'm pretty sure that microphone is picking stuff up and sending it back through. And so it's not a huge amount, but that's just enough to give it a little bit of a reverb. that was probably causing that. But that's definite. But yeah, we were Glad you thought that because honestly you No, you did. No, no, no, no, no.

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