hi i'm jordan from kettner creative in
this video we're going to show you how
to set up
and connect the focusrite scarlet 2i2
audio interface to your computer so you
can connect to a zoom meeting for a
video conference or anything like that
the same steps that we present in this
video will be
necessary if you're using office teams
or any other video conferencing software
this video will work for you as well so
in this video we have the focusrite
scarlet 2i2 audio interface we have the
audio technica
at2020 microphone which is extremely
popular for
live video streaming or video
conferencing
i prefer this microphone with its
optional windscreen on it
i find that this helps with plosive
protection and some sibilance it just
makes the microphone sound better to me
overall but other than that we have a
couple cables some headphones and things
like that if you want pricing or specs
for
anything that you see in this video
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we do have all kinds of links on where
you can find all this
if you're looking to purchase so the
first thing that we're going to do is
we're going to tip this up
and we're going to connect it to our
microphone so i'm just going to connect
the xlr cable to the bottom of the
microphone connect it to the interface
just make sure that everything's turned
down on it connect the headphones to the
interface
you can do this in any order that you
want normally you'd probably have the
usb
cable already connected i just wanted to
be able to turn this up
so the overhead cam can see when we plug
everything in
so now that all that's plugged in we can
connect the usb cable
to our computer
plug it into the computer here
and that should work so we see the
lights on this device coming on now you
can see that it's getting power
so one thing this is a condenser
microphone so that means that we do need
48 volts of phantom power i'm going to
click that on
in terms of monitoring i'm going to
leave the single circle on
that means that we want to hear any
input that we plug into this device
coming out of both ears we don't want to
separate them at all
next i'm going to put my headphones on
now that my headphones are on i'm just
going to turn it up a little bit and
then we're going to increase the volume
of the preamp for this microphone so we
keep turning it up
check one two one two you can see here
now that it just went red a little bit
you want it so it's mostly green when
you're speaking into this microphone i'm
just gonna turn my headphones up a
little bit better
so anytime you speak it should go green
if it flicks yellow for a second that's
okay
just lets you know that you're getting
close to clipping but i think it's set
pretty well here
so over on the computer now that
everything's connected
i just googled set up a zoom
test meeting and then i got to this page
here
this way we can join a fake zoom call
test all our settings ahead of time make
sure everything's working
i'm going to show you how to do that
here it's going to ask if we want to
open zoom and we do
obviously if you don't have zoom
installed on your computer now would be
a great time to do that
so you can see here we want to join with
video
and it's asking right away if i hear a
ringtone you can see under speaker 3
here
it's already kind of selected the
scarlet 2i2
i can hear it quite well in my headphone
so i'm going to hit yes
now wants me to speak and pause
i do hear a replay so i'm going to hit
yes i'm going to join with computer
audio
join with computer audio so now i'm
using the computer audio like it says
i'm just going to open up these audio
settings just so we can see
and double check everything here so you
can see here when i'm speaking normally
that it is
in the green whenever i'm speaking if
you want you can try
cheat it just a little bit more but i'm
pretty happy with
how loud it is there that's really
everything that you need to do
in order to test and set up this device
with zoom so again i'm just going to hit
test speaker here
i can hear it perfectly in my headphones
it's a great volume my monitor is
my monitor is at exactly 50 so i have
tons of headroom to adjust
i think i'm ready to join a call if you
have any questions about any of the
steps in this video or any of the
settings on the device itself
again you can use the optional air
feature on the scarlet 2i2
if that's something that you want if you
hear any hiss right now their
fan on the laptop is working pretty hard
just with the screen capturing software
and zoom and all the settings that i
have on it right now so that's probably
what you're hearing
so if you have any questions about
anything that we've done in this video
please leave a comment in the comment
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