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tbdana wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:17 am I have an AKG 414 put through a Universal Audio Apollo X8 audio interface that I use for both speaking and playing, and it's great with zero apparent latency and good quality sound.

ryant wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:31 am

tbdana wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 9:17 am I have an AKG 414 put through a Universal Audio Apollo X8 audio interface that I use for both speaking and playing, and it's great with zero apparent latency and good quality sound.

Nice. I'll be that sounds good. By chance, is there a similar mic you might recommend at a lower price? They have a used one on reverb, looks like it is good condition. Not sure I'm ready to pull the trigger on that though.

https://reverb.com/item/90938786-akg-ak ... gold-black

Looks like this might be comparable, much cheaper too:

https://reverb.com/item/91364171-akg-c5600-live-414

ryant wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 6:54 am I use a Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 for meetings. Would that work ok you think?

Thanks,

Ryan

MahlerMusic wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 10:56 am

ryant wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 6:54 am I use a Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 for meetings. Would that work ok you think?

Thanks,

Ryan

That is what I upgraded to for my Desktop Webcam. It will work just fine.

cmcslide wrote: Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:19 pm By default, Zoom software wants to filter out all sounds that are not voices. There are some settings that you can change to allow it to reproduce musical sounds; look in the audio preferences for “use original sound.” Both you and your student will want to change that setting. I had to figure that out myself teaching during the pandemic…

cmcslide wrote: Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:19 pm By default, Zoom software wants to filter out all sounds that are not voices. There are some settings that you can change to allow it to reproduce musical sounds; look in the audio preferences for “use original sound.” Both you and your student will want to change that setting. I had to figure that out myself teaching during the pandemic…

Wilktone wrote: Mon Jul 28, 2025 7:59 am I'm just now noticing this topic, so I'm a bit late.

High quality camera and microphone are nice, but might be wasted on Zoom. More importantly you'll want a stable, reliable, upload speed.

Someone more knowledgeable will have to correct me, but I imagine that if you're trying to upload high resolution video and audio to your teacher that Zoom might compress it automatically to whatever your upload speed happens to be. So what your teacher might be seeing and hearing isn't the quality that your camera and mic deliver.

cmcslide wrote: Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:19 pm By default, Zoom software wants to filter out all sounds that are not voices. There are some settings that you can change to allow it to reproduce musical sounds; look in the audio preferences for “use original sound.” Both you and your student will want to change that setting. I had to figure that out myself teaching during the pandemic…

This is the single most important thing you need to be able to do. If you don't get this setting correct your voice can be heard, but when you go to play the audio will clip out and your teacher can't hear anything you play.

Notice that there are two places on Zoom where you have to handle this. On your audio settings you check the box and then in your actual meeting window there is another box (mine is in the upper right hand corner) where you need to switch it on too. I don't know why Zoom set it up this way, but changing your audio just in the settings don't always put original sound for musicians on.