2022.07.28 – 0574 – The Zoom Settings To Make You Sound Better
How to sound better on Zoom
There are a few tweaks that you can make in the settings that will make a huge difference to your voice.
Zoom automatically adds processing to the audio through the mic. This is turned on and works best if you are in a noisy environment, if your mic is far from you or you are using the built-in mic in your webcam or computer, or using EarPods or a Bluetooth mic. But if you are using a more pro mic and have better acoustic treatment in your room, this setting may actually be damaging the audio feed and changing your voice detrimentally.
Go to ‘Start Video’ at the bottom of the screen and then choose ‘Video Settings’ and then ‘Audio Settings’.
If you are routing an external microphone through a mixer, then make sure that that is selected in the drop down. A USB microphone will also show up here, perhaps indicated by its make and model.
Untick ‘Automatically adjust microphone volume’, and then set the ‘Input Volume’ at its highest level. That way you can adjust the level of the sound manually on your mixer.
Click through to ‘Advanced’ and at the top, select the option ‘Show in-meeting option to Enable Original Sound from microphone’. Then:
· ‘Supress Persistent Background Noise’ > Disable
· ‘Supress Intermittent Background Noise’ > Disable
· ‘Echo Cancellation’ > Auto
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