BEST AUDIO SETTINGS IN ZOOM!

Hello guys and welcome to my channel! I'm done. CHOI and today we'll talk about how to get the clearest

audio

possible on Zoom. So whether you're a musician giving a performance via Zoom or a teacher giving a lecture. Especially in these COVID times, a lot of people are going to need better

audio

. Now, because many people want better audio, they will buy microphones; It could be a USB microphone or some kind of... microphone that you plug in through your computer's headphone jack or you could go all out and get a professional microphone with an audio interface and everything, but it might still sound a bit dull. little static.

Through Zoom, I know many musicians giving lessons have had issues because they couldn't hear certain notes their students were playing because Zoom's noise depression was cutting things out. To combat this, there are a couple of easy steps you can follow over Zoom and you'll have crystal clear audio! So, let's take a look! So we're going to start by opening up Zoom and you can do this within the meeting

settings

, but since I'm not going to open a new meeting, I'm just going to go to the

settings

and then we're going to go into video—audio, obviously...

I almost said video. Let's go into audio. Be sure to test your speaker. So now I'm going to use this microphone right in front of me for Zoom if I try the speaker...yes, I can hear that Beautiful. I can hear it perfectly well. Now that doesn't matter because other people don't care about that. What they do care about is the level of your microphone. So... testing the microphone... ONE, TWO, THREE. Check! Check! check one two check check press microphone That's pretty clear. There is an option to automatically adjust the microphone volume. Depending on what you're doing, you may want to turn it on or off.

If I'm lecturing or just speaking in a normal Zoom meeting, I'll turn on the automatic microphone volume adjustment because that's basically going to make my voice really loud when I'm speaking and other times I'll just mute it, so it doesn't increase the noise inside the room. meeting. However, if I'm giving a concert or like a performance via Zoom, in that case I'm not going to turn this on. So if I turn it off, all the dynamics inside your mixer, whether it's directly from your interface or whether we're routing it through a DAW or even just going through a digital mixer.

However, if I can, I would add a limiter or compressor to the main mix bus before taking it to Zoom so that the levels are quite high. Otherwise, other people will have to turn up the volume when they hear yours and then turn it down as fast as they can when other people talk because other people will talk much louder. Then use a separate audio device to play ringtones simultaneously... It depends on what you want. It doesn't really affect the audio... Join computer audio when joining a meeting... I don't know about that... it doesn't really matter...

The next one does a little more... "Mute microphone when joining to a meeting." That's pretty important because I could be running around organizing in my chair and I don't want to contaminate the meeting with that kind of extraneous noise. So I'll put it on silent. "Press and hold Space to temporarily unmute yourself." That's also preference. Many times in meetings they ask you to do this so that all the strange noise cannot be heard. But this only applies when you are silent. So if you're the main person, that setup won't work. a lot. Now let's dive into the advanced menu.

Okay, here's the first thing: "Show in meeting option to enable original microphone sound." This is very important once you are in a meeting, there will be a setting at the top left. I'll show you in a moment and that setting will basically disable all of your Zoom settings instead of processing your sound. to make it work directly...raw. This also matters, although if you have it activated it shouldn't, but just in case... "Suppress persistent background noise." When you use your computer's built-in microphone or your phone's microphone, there will be inherent background noise because... honestly, they suck... they just do...

But, when you use an interface microphone or some type of external microphone. They are of much better quality. So, because you don't want it to suppress things that you don't want it to suppress, for example, maybe you're talking and all of a sudden it just cuts out a little bit of things that you don't want. I'm going to deactivate it. It's probably on automatic mode by default. "Intermittent background noise" is very similar, only it will be something like chair creaks (I have a pretty loud chair) or things that Zoom decides are not part of your voice or the main feature, but then if you are playing an instrument or something, Zoom might try to cancel it.

So disable it too. So “echo cancellation” is basically… If I were just using my computer for Zoom, I have the speakers on so I can hear what other people are saying. , but I'm also talking, so the speakers play other people's sounds while I'm talking and now the microphone picks up that and then you can get feedback. We've all experienced feedback before on something, right? A school event... a church service... (comments suck, please no comments, save us from the comments please!) Basically, that's what echo cancellation is for, but most of the time it's I would highly recommend when you are using Zoom you are using headphones to monitor your sound and that way the microphone won't pick up other people's sounds and throw Zoom into a feedback loop and because the echo cancellation won't continue you will sound . much cleaner when there's echo cancellation, it's basically reversing the phase and canceling it like noise canceling headphones because your microphone isn't perfect and the Zoom software isn't going to be perfect when processing live when it's possible, it's not like that.

I want it to work so always use headphones and there are only two settings for this automatic and aggressive option. I don't know why there should be a disabled feature, but you know they have automatic and aggressive, so the most transparent option is obviously automatic. So I'm going to leave it on automatic so those are all the settings. Now let's quickly get into a meeting. I've already started a meeting... I'm going to join my audio. Joining computer audio... we already tried that, so I'll just... move on. Now, as you can see. In this top left corner, there is an option to turn on the original sound.

Make sure you choose the correct interface; Right now I'm using the Behringer UMC404HD (that's a mouthful, huh). So I'm going to select it and right now the original sound will be transmitted. So if I play the keyboard below me... The people on the other end will hear my keyboard. When I speak into this microphone, people will hear me on the other end and it will be loud and clear. So those are the settings you should use when trying to get the

best

audio quality on Zoom, whether you're a musician. Teacher, student, lecturer – someone who simply needs good sound in their Zoom meetings, these are the settings to choose from.

So because this is such a quick video, I may have missed something. So if I did, let me know in the comments. If this video helped you, leave a like, comment, subscribe, hit the notification bell and we'll see you next time.