Those who have visited our office know that we’ve got a very interesting loft space. A drawback to that is that our conference room is especially ‘live’ due to the high ceilings and wood floors. Our pricey Polycom phone is clear for anyone in the conference room, but if you’re on the other side of the line, it’s unbearable. Our temporary solution was to put napkins over the mics to reduce how much noise they pick up. It definitely made an improvement, but there’s still too much echo-i-ness.

We’ve got a new phone we’re trying and are going to carpet the floor of the conference room as a first step. Otherwise we may need to put in some acoustic sound tiles and make the conference room into a part time recording studio. Updates forthcoming…