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Re: Competition volume
I see 3 sides to this story:
1) Regional/District Directors want to make sure people can hear the event commentary. If you have noise concerns at events, these are the people you need to track down. They got the power to fix it for good.
2) Due to the nature of the venues we have, speaker set up is frequently the last concern for an event committee. Usually they end up where the fit, generally in sub-par locations where volume is turned up to compensate for poor placement. Generally speakers are aimed for the audience seating, because people are everywhere at FRC events its a unique audio engineering challenge, and usually the sound guys don't have the ability to add more speakers, which would be the ideal solution.
3) Frequently the volume at the source of the speakers is way too loud and people are standing next to it all day. Queuers are the most frequent victims in my opinion. HQ has given minimal guidance to keep the sound at a safe level.
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