Leesburg, Virginia Audio Broadcast Test Session – August 21, 2026
Audio Broadcast and Microphone Testing Session – August 21, 2026
This transcript captures a technical audio and Granicus broadcast testing session on 2026-08-21, rather than a formal city council or public meeting. No agenda or minutes were available, and no formal action items, public testimony, motions, or votes appear in the recording. The recording includes some unrelated classical music commentary before the audio testing begins.
Technical Testing & Discussion
- Staff/technicians tested the room microphones, including the mayor’s microphone, while a remote participant listened to confirm what was being broadcast on Granicus.
- A tester checked three positions — close up, farther back, and off to the side — and tested the right, center, and left microphones by reciting months of the year and days of the week.
- A 27-second delay was noted on the Granicus broadcast. A participant said the audio reportedly sounds good in the room but is poor on the broadcast side, with some people being inaudible.
- The tester said the only change made in Granicus was from mono to dual mono, which kept the same sound quality except that audio now comes through both ears/channels.
- Earlier broadcasts had been louder but included ambient sound because gain had been increased at the broadcast level without equalization (EQ).
- Discussion noted that a TechCom participant seated near the mayor could not be heard because his microphone was off to the side. Participants also discussed that the mayor sometimes struggles to use the microphone properly and that one person became upset when Scott moved the mayor’s microphone.
- One participant asked whether audio separation would require additional programming and more time; this was confirmed. A Crestron system limitation was mentioned, allowing groups of only about seven.
Key Outcomes
- No formal decisions, resolutions, or votes were taken during this session. The recording appears to be preparation for an upcoming broadcast or meeting, with the main activity being microphone-level testing and troubleshooting of broadcast audio.
Meeting Transcript
William Caballero playing horns there with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred Honick. The Horn Concerto number one by Ricard Strauss. Most of them Czech immigrants. The fourth and final movement of the string quartet number twelve, the American String Quartet by Antony Devorjak played there by the modern mandolin quartet, which is still technically a string quartet. Argentine composer Carlos Wastavino named this music after one of his neighbors, Heromita Linares. An elderly woman who had come to Argentina from Spain, and as a child, Jostabino used to go to her house to buy eggs. Hmm. So yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yes, yes. Yeah. Oh, you mean like a filter. So you've got um a room filter. Yeah, and then okay. Um am I correct in guessing that kind of uh separation takes a little bit of programming, which means it would be more time, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yes, yeah. Yeah, yes, yeah. Yes, yes, yeah. And of course, I mean that then the problem is, I mean, it does if uh the the the comments that I've gotten is it sounds good in the room, it's just really bad on on the broadcasting side. So uh in terms of what when I say when I say bad is it's like they can't hear certain people, and this those people who who were uh on the uh on the Techcom one, the the guy who was in the same place as the mayor, his fault his his mic was off to the side, and you couldn't hear a single thing he was saying at all on the broadcasting. Um and then yes, yeah. So I mean that that I know is one of the things I I know with the the mayor, we we do struggle with um uh with getting the uh her to use use the mic properly. Um and I know that when Scott actually pushed it one time, I mean she got very upset and she actually hit the mic and uh away from her because she didn't want it near her. So I know we are dealing with some personalities, yeah, but but yeah, yeah, yes, yeah. Yeah, yes, I yes, and no. I I yeah, and I know I mean Scott's going along the same kind of same vein too, but the problem of course is is they're also the ones that are yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. So um I I am now sitting back here and having a conversation to see if uh you can hear me. Um can uh let me see, I'm gonna go ahead and do the months of the year since that'll be uh easiest January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Do you know I actually have nightmares of counting backwards and forwards and doing all the months and the years and the alphabet? Um is the gain how's the game uh how is it sounding on your end? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay, cool. Yes, we we do have some mic eaters as well. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if if yeah, yeah. I know it it is weird too when when Brenton said he, you know, he had to group them, and I'm like, I I you know and he explained it that the um I think was the crest run could only take uh groups of seven or something like that, and I'm like, but that's crazy. So but yeah. Yeah, go ahead for it. Let me uh you know let me uh see uh I'm gonna go over back to my computer in case we need my head eventually. What do you need to follow? Okay, yeah. So are you testing it uh so you're you you're gonna be uh you're pulling out the uh you're pulling up the um video that should be um broadcasting right now on Granicus? Oh okay.
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