How to sound your best on Zoom? This tutorial will take you from sounding like this through
to sounding like this and we'll also have a little bit of this plus a touch of this and
then finally we're gonna have a bit of fun by looking at a little bit of both. I'm Simon and
this is Computer tutoring. Come on get started already. Great okay so you're in the zoom meeting
and you want to sound your best so this video is all about sound it's all about how to sound
your best, if you want to know how to look your best then please click on the link, I don't know where its going to be.
So it might be that you've spent all that time and effort
into looking your best but it can all go to waste if you don't sound great. So just like the
look good video look your best video on Zoom we're going to start off with the worst sound
possible and then we are going to build up from there. If you haven't already done so make sure
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a thing. This is the second in a series of three tutorial videos, the first how to look your best
on zoom, the second is how to sound your best on zoom and the third is how to make sure your Wi-Fi
is the best for zoom. Let's start off with the worst sounds in zoom. So I'm just going to
record a zoom session, and then we're gonna go to out worst sound in zoom, here we go okay so,
okay so now I'm in zoom and I've started a zoom meeting and I'm using what we could
probably agree is one of the worst sounds, and that is the sound that comes from your laptop. The microphone doesn't sound that good in fact it's picking up the fan is trying to pick up
all of the ambient noise it just what seems to pick everything up it's just not great. If
you are in this stage what can you do to sort of like help the situation? So we're going to
go ahead and we're going to use what a lot of other people use, and that is a set of earphones.
Okay I'm now on zoom and I'm recording this with my earphones with the microphone that's built-in,
got to be careful about you know banging it against your side here. Sometimes it can be
difficult to know whether your headphones can be used as a microphone, so a couple of clues
would be have a just a little look along and see if literally it does have a microphone on it if
you instill in doubt so maybe you've got like a set of headphones like this with a wire and
you're not sure whether it includes it just have a look here and see if you can see the difference,
you see the one has got three sections and the other has two sections. So the one with
three sections includes the microphone so just have a quick look at the end of your wires if
you're unsure if you do have three, great you're ready to go and you're ready to sound a lot better.
So some people might think you know I spent all that money on Bluetooth headphones with
noise cancellation and everything like that, how could that be worse than these which are
freebie ones that you get with a phone well what I'm doing I'm in Zune let me just record
in zoom here right here and let me just change the microphone so I'm just going to go down to
the bottom left hand corner there, let us just go up and at the moment I've got the opposite
opportunity to use my headset b.x hands-free audio and let's turn to that one, wait for a year
in a day, and now the audio that you're hearing is through my headphones and I think you agree
that it doesn't sound that great in fact those headphones they sounded much those earphones
those freebie earphones that I had they sound much better. So what's the point here is these
are these headphones are meant to sound they've got the noise cancellation and everything on them
to make the sound sound good, however these are Bluetooth headphones might not incorporate a
suitable microphone to help you sound your best on zoom' so where do we go from here?
All right so now I am using what I can safely say is my favorite microphone, it's the one I use for
my training sessions and it's got a beautiful name it's called the lavalier microphone so
lavaliere from the French word to hang around the neck like a pendant. I don't have to put anything
in my ears or anything over my ears if I've got a training day to conduct I always go with this,
and because it is closer you can muck around with the settings a little bit more. So I'm down to the
bottom left hand corner go up to the audience and then go to advanced just over here, so what I
can do here is at the moment I've got it set at moderate to moderate and auto for the the sound
here, if I just go back I don't know what I'm going to automatically adjust my volume that's
good you just go back there, and I can change it so probably even disabled if my room is quiet yeah or
I can click on this turn on original sound. This is particularly for music as well so there's no
suppression whatsoever. But if you're going to use any of the microphones that plug into a laptop, so
within the microphone socket you'll you'll come across a little problem especially if I was when
I was using a lavalliere here.they condenser mic just here the issue is basically is that there's
only one headphone stroke microphone socket on my laptop and many are the same, I think they try to
save space or money or something I don't know. So what you'll need to get is something known
as a splitter okay, so just like the earphones that I showed earlier on for just those I look
at earlier and if you look there you can see that that it's got three sections there plug
it in plug your headphones in one socket and they'll be marked up with a microphone so this
one here the Pink's the microphone and the greens their headphones and then you'll be ready to go .
So there we have it the lavalier microphone or the lapel microphone my favorite.
But what happens if you want to take your sound quality even further? Well you could get one of
these. So this is known as a condenser microphone, so I do need to plug this in somehow by a USB port
or whatever, you can just plug this straight into your laptop into your computer and the sound is
you got it a lot better. I have a nice echo option as well I can turn up so I can gives
me a little echo if I wanted to if you want you to sound that way let me just turn that down again.
What I'd probably do here is turn on the original sound here, go to audio settings
her, e and then I would probably go to advanced just down here, and then I would probably just disable
that sound, so let's just disable everything, there we go I'm gonna close that one down. Brilliant so
here we go so if I'm going to use this as a voice narration or maybe if I'm going to do
a training session where people aren't really going to see my face a lot then I've got this
here, the only downside with this is it's quite big I can really get close and personal if you
want to do a DJ or if I'm gonna do some sort of online dance party. You just want your microphone
as close as you comfortably can have it you know like so, and in this way don't talk too loud don't
shout I tend to maybe speak with a loud volume you don't have to do this, it will adjust it will
pick up the volume and it will be fine so we go to the settings and go to audio settings here if
there's like ambient noise in the room so if I turn my telly on again, okay and then I can just
turn this to okay there we go, so there we go so this let me just so yeah so we can see here that
this is aggressive background noise suppression and aggressive intermittent background noise
suppression but I think you can hear me just as well you know it's great, so I'd do all of that
especially if you've got some noise going on in the background there. So what happens if you want
to then take this a little bit further? Maybe you're going to play some music, so what do you
get? This microphone is fantastic for that, let's have a listen shall we and hear how this sounds.
All right so say for instance you wanting to record you've got the opportunity of doing a
performance what should you do? Well let's have a quick look at the different settings which
are standard. So say for instance you don't change your settings, I'm just going to go to here,
and just make sure all of that auto, and then yeah it's good, yeah we go. So my plectrum here
so here we go nice original song, London Day , just do the chorus shall I? Let us turn on the
original sound here, let's go back onto my sound settings and let us disable all of this, get rid
of this, because your mic should be good enough for that. That's great if you don't see original
sound here just make sure that this checkbox here is checked, and then you'll see original
sound there. Let's give that one a go again. Please forgive us singing there but here we go.
(me singing)
Now you want to do some music and you want to take a mix bit further. Other than using the condenser
microphone you could get yourself one of these it's an audio USB interface that basically plugs
in via USB into your computer. This one here is just known as the uphoria UMC 204 HD and you can
see I've got two inputs there if I can get my hand round here, wrong side so this one here is an XLR
microphone so that plugs into this lovely Shure 50 sm58 microphone at that for years and it's still
really good, and then this one here plugs into my guitar, and then this one just here
is for my headphones so I can monitor and listen because I got to sound levels here.
So I just want to make sure that I'm not going to you know, be singing really loud and my guitars
going to be going over the top of it. So then I can adjust my sight sound levels, okay. Brilliant
excellent okay so let's just try one. (I'm Singing) So let's try it again. What I'd want to do is make sure I turn
on original sound. let's go to the audio settings, let go to advanced just down here, and you see these
are all disabled, I don't want any of these on and the echo cancellation just on auto that's really
good. So whenever you're doing that make sure when you do this you make sure you turn on the original
sound so this there is blue and then you're ready to go. Brilliant. Let's try this one here then (I'm singing).
Okay there and so say for instance you want to add some funny voices to when you're on zoom
so that you sound like somebody else. What you can do is you can use a free program
called voice mod I'll give you the link down below, and then what that basically does is
it runs in your system tray I'll give you a look voice mod, so that's how it looks here. When
you open it up it gives you free voices that change every day, and it runs like a little
microphone I can hear my own voice there. Now I always find that this runs better
with headphones because if those speakers and it picks it up here you get a lot of feedback
and the noise cancellation you can really make it rubbish. So what I'm going to do here is drop
down list here and make sure I choose my voice mod virtual and now whatever voice I choose on
this here it will be so this will be hello so I should be sounding like a little baby.
Once you get used to your voice I would turn off here in my voice so you don't have to
hear it what other people do have to hear it as well. There's nothing to worry about..ive taken care of everything.
So you might have to want to you might want to wrap buck around without a little bit and
see what settings are the better for the Voice Mod. great excellent, so if you've got
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