How can I join 2 audio sources and input both to Zoom?
Mic solution for skype in large conference room
Using 3 XLR Mics Simultaneously on Zoom
Which platform are you on? On Mac, 'Audio MIDI Setup' (comes with MacOS) would let you create an aggregate device that includes all the microphones. Select that device as your mic and you have them aggregated. Loopback that ThatPineapple suggested is even more configurable, but is a paid app and imho really expensive for what it is (otherwise, I'd have it).
If you are on Windows 10, 'ASIO4ALL' is a third-party install that creates aggregate devices.
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Does anyone know how I could send 2 audio inputs to Zoom? I want to send both an electric guitar and my microphone to Zoom. They are both simple usb inputs.
Hi Jesse,
You nailed the problem - for any conferencing application, lousy audio leads to collaboration problems. The answer really depends on your room size, table size, seating arrangement, and audio mic requirements. (Individual mute per station, noise levels, wired or wireless mics, configurable multipurpose room, BYOD or fixed PC/video con equipment or mobile cart, speakers and placement, audio bandwidth…) And your budget.
Wireless mics provide flexibility in placement around the room and individual mute buttons per mic. (That frees you up from having to manually play with the mixer during the call too.) Wired mics can have the problem of cable runs and clutter, but are generally less expensive. 50-60 people in a conference room means a pretty big room, probably 4 mics minimum, 6-8 better, regardless of what type you finally choose.
At Revolabs (yes, I’m a green guy) we’ve got multiple solutions for conference room audio. A 4-8 channel Fusion is a plug-and-play system can do the job as I understand it. http://www.revolabs.com/products/product-line/fusion-4-8-microphones
Good luck!
Once a month my company has an all staff meeting with about 50-60 of us gathered around a very large table. We have about 4-5 people remoting in from around the country via Skype, displayed on a big screen TV. The video quality is less than stellar, but it’s not much of a concern. The audio is what’s important. We can hear the remote users just fine in our office. The remote users, however, have a hard time hearing us. With just the mic attached to the webcam, as you’d imagine, it doesn’t pick up voices very well from across the room in such a large conference, and it picks up white noise from the people near the mic sipping coffee and what not, while the person all the way across the room is talking. To add to the challenge, this is a non profit so I’m trying to find a solution on the cheap. I’ve looked into possibly getting a 4 channel mixer which would feed into the mic input of our laptop that’s running Skype. Then hooking up 4 mics to the mixer that are placed near the four corners of this giant table and throughout the meeting manually adjusting the levels on the mixer to only pick up the appropriate mic. Does anybody have any other ideas or any experience with a good solution in this scenario? Thanks for any help!
-Jesse
Hi. I am a music student taking lessons on zoom.
For my setup, I have 3 XLR mics connected to a 4-channel audio interface, but on Zoom I can only choose between input 1+2 or 3+4 rather than 1-4.
Is there a solution to this?
Thanks.
Which platform are you on? On Mac, 'Audio MIDI Setup' (comes with MacOS) would let you create an aggregate device that includes all the microphones. Select that device as your mic and you have them aggregated. Loopback that ThatPineapple suggested is even more configurable, but is a paid app and imho really expensive for what it is (otherwise, I'd have it).
If you are on Windows 10, 'ASIO4ALL' is a third-party install that creates aggregate devices.
If you’re on a Mac, you can easily route that setup using Loopback.
If you have a Universal Audio audio interface, you can route all your mics to an AUX channel and set the AUX L/R channels as your top input channels in the UAD Console IO Matrix.
If you’re using another audio interface, check if its app has an AUX bus feature, you should be able to do something similar.