Hi everyone! I'd like to talk about how to get a good quality stereo signal from a keyboard and a
lapel mic for in my case teaching piano online I've had various problems with this and there
is some software out there that allows you to route various bits of audio for zoom but I've
had problems with the signal sometimes coming out in mono only or it's come out distorted so the
solution I found is to use loopback audio which is a commercial product but it's the only thing
I've found to give a good result so this is all for the Mac Apple Mac so yeah in basic terms I've
got piano in stereo and I've got the lapel mic and I want that to be sent over zoom in stereo
so what have I got I've got a Focusrite Scarlett and you can see that I've got an XLR my XLR mic
for the lapel mic and the other inputs I've got left and right for my Nord keyboard so what I'll
do now is go over to the computer and just show you how it looks like in zoom so let's look at
the audio setup using loopback audio which is the software I'm using to manage the audio routing you
can see I've got the Scarlett 4i4 interface up here and channel one is the lapel mic and using
the audio cables here sort of virtual cables I've routed that to channel one and to the
stereo output which aren't using Zoom channels 3 & 4 are coming from the Nord keyboard and they
will be rooted into the same mix it is possible using loopback to add other devices so you can
add quicktime player or anything that produces audio into that mix let's go into Zoom and you'll
see that if I go down here to the audio setup I've got 'Zoom mix' as the microphone so let's do some
audio tests and double-check what we've got here and Zoom so 'Zoom Mix' which is what I was just
showing you on loopback now what I'd like to do is just show you what it was like before I used
loopback I was just using the scarlet as the input so you can still hear the mic you can still hear
the keyboard hopefully the one thing was different is that stereo doesn't work even if you've got it
enabled in Zoom stereo was not happening so let's just test that I can put a delay a ping-pong delay
on the sound so you should hear it you should if it was stereo hear it bouncing between left and
right it will just play something now that will be in mono what I'm gonna do is go to zoom mix
which is the Loopback mix if I do exactly the same thing you should hear that in stereo so that's a
big big improvement and irrespective of the actual delay obviously if you have a let's say you had a
sound with the particular effect reverb it just sounds better so you get a much nicer okay so
the other thing to remember is always turn on original sound and Zoom so that means that the
sound isn't compressed and yes that's basically it so I think this this is a way of getting a
pretty good pretty good sound it does mean you have to use a plug-in piece of software but I
think it's a good solution to if you want the flexibility for doing podcasting or teaching
where sounds are real really important thing this is a good option so I hope that was useful