Clarification on Squadcast’s Optional Echo-Cancellation Feature

In general regarding echo-cancellation:

• If everyone is wearing headphones or earbuds you should not use echo-cancellation processing, and that is how you should ALWAYS record episodes, unless…
• If one or more participants do not have headphones or earbuds (really?!?!) and they must listen to the other participants through speakers, then use echo-cancellation. But please, instead of lazily relying on echo-cancellation processing, ask all guests to FIND headphones or earbuds, because echo-cancellation has one big nasty side effect…
• That “ducking” phenomena, which happens when people talk over each other and one person’s voice gets “ducked,” meaning its volume gets pushed down significantly and the sound is also completely garbled temporarily, making it inaudible.

Clarification #1 regarding Squadcast’s echo-cancellation feature in particular: When you enable echo-cancellation it is applied to ALL participants’ audio. Which means if one participant doesn’t have headphones/earbuds, then EVERYONE ELSE’S audio will still suffer from the ducking effect refereed to above, which can cause terrible sounding audio for everyone. Yuck.

Clarification #2: Only the person hosting the Squadcast session has control of turning on/off the echo-cancellation processing. And that on/off setting is saved for future sessions.

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