How to get good sound (from video or music) over Zoom

Sep 28

How to get good sound (from video or music) over Zoom

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Zoom is optimised for speaking. If there is any other noise (e.g. a guitar or piano) Zoom will think it is background noise and try to remove it! To share a movie or song over a zoom meeting you need to change some settings. Here’s how.

Go to Zoom/Preferences/Audio Advanced and select the following options…

It’s best to turn off background noise suppression when playing music like a guitar. “Enable Original Sound” will put the audio from your mic or movie directly to Zoom without noise and echo cancelling.

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This is what it looks like when ‘Original Sound’ is turned on.

When sharing a video click these options as you share it to include the sound and optimise the quality.

2 Responses to “How to get good sound (from video or music) over Zoom”

Rob says:
April 19, 2020 at 11:42 pm
Do these Zoom audio processing settings affect shared computer sound as well, or just audio from the mic?
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- RarAvis says:
  August 19, 2021 at 6:50 am
  I’ve often wondered the same… Logic seems to dictate the mic only, but… It would be nice to have a definitive answer.
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