Zoom is a great tool for music lessons, but requires a few updates to make sure things work well for the lessons. Please make sure you make the below updates prior to your Zoom session. If you’d like to see a video of this that has some more details, here’s one.
- Open Zoom
- Open Settings
- Turn off / uncheck “Automatically adjust microphone volume”
- Once it’s off, update the Input Level to 75% – 100% depending on your microphone setup
- Suppress background noise as “Low”
- In Settings, select “Show in-meeting option to enable ‘Original Sound'”
- Turn ON High Fidelity music mode
- Turn OFF echo cancellation
- Turn OFF stereo mode (optional)
- Turn ON Original Sound (this will be in Zoom window, not the settings)
- Click “Advanced options”
- Signal Processing by audio device drivers should be Auto (optional)
- Echo Cancellation should be Auto