Hi this is Dr. Mario Ajero and in this video I want to show you how to optimize
the audio settings in the video conferencing application zoom on mobile
devices so that it delivers the best quality that it can using the audio
settings that are available through this software program if you haven't done so
already download the zoom app which you can learn more about at zoom.us and also
find on the respective app stores for your mobile devices and make sure that
you create a free account I already have it downloaded to my iPad so I'm gonna
launch that zoom here and I'm already logged into my daughter's account who
uses it also for online lessons as well what you want to do is go in the bottom
left corner and tap on this gear icon for settings and then you want to scroll
down all the way until you get to meetings actually it's one of the top
ones here and there's all these different meeting settings that you can
adjust here as well here just a couple of them that aren't necessarily related
to to the audio I'd like to uncheck the mirror my video particularly since I
teach piano lessons I like to see the right hand and the left hand as they are
when I see myself on screen so that's just one personal preference but you can
see for yourself and you can adjust that if necessary here but what you really
want to do is scroll down until you go past the closed captioning and find
original sound or use original sound so what you want to do is you want to check
that so that it's highlighted in green as it is here on my screen and this will
allow you to enable or disable the original sound what this does is when
you are enable original sound it doesn't do any filtering of any low frequencies
or low volume sound that's going on and this is important particularly for music
playing because if you're playing something really softly at a slow
dynamic level and you don't have the original sound enabled then the zoom
application thinks that it's background noise and will try
to filter it out because it's usually optimized for speech instead of music so
make sure that this setting is checked but that's not the last step that you
need to do in order to enable the original sound here within the meeting
itself you need to enable that original sound here so I'm going to show you how
to do that you could either join the meeting or I'm gonna create a new
meeting just by myself here and start a meeting and then once you're in that
start a meeting here then you want to say to tell the application to let
others hear you by joining your audio and also if this is your first time
using this particular application it might also ask you security permissions
to enable you to have access to your microphone and also to your camera make
sure that you do so so that you don't have any glitches or lack of connections
working with your camera or microphone as well
and on the top right you see the three dots that says more tap on that and then
now you should see this enable original sound if you didn't check that other
button in the settings earlier with green I don't believe you'll be able to
have seen this enable original sound so I'm gonna tap on that and now I should
you should have the original sound enabled on your zoom calls here okay
it's a little bit confusing because when you tap on that more button here it says
disable original sound that's actually what you want to see here and you want
to it toggles on and off here this button so it's a little bit confusing
it'd be nice if they had that little green slider it would be a little bit
clearer for people to recognize here but that will give you the best audio
settings that you possibly can through the zoom conferencing program of course
you could also improve the audio quality by getting external microphones and so
forth but if you're just using your mobile devices such as an iPad or a
smart phone and you don't have any external microphones then this is really
the best thing that you could do in order to make your audio for your music
lessons sound great here what I have is I have a short clip of
me teaching one of my students Gezle and one week she's using an iPad I'm
using a computer but she didn't have the original sound enabled in one week's
lesson and then we troubleshooted it and then she enabled the original sound so I
just want to show you a little bit of the differences between the enabling and
the original sound disabled as well great okay how about the left hand
Good back down again back up again and hopefully that gives
you a little bit of an idea of what you can do in order to optimize your mobile
devices in order to get the best audio that you possibly can on the zoom of
course there are other workarounds as far as getting the getting an external
microphone to work with your mobile devices here but that might be safe for
a different video as well here but if you're just using your built in camera
and built-in microphones these are the best settings that you could possibly do
in order to get the best sounds for your music lessons using zoom so if you have
any questions don't hesitate to email me at ajeromp@sfasu.edu
and keep on practicing. Thanks. Bye!