This is perfect! As a musician and teacher who has been using zoom to perform and teach virtually, this virtual mixer has been the best solution yet! I've had great zoom meetings and terrible ones using the same settings, even with a physical mixer (mackie 4ch), it seems to me Zoom wasn't necessarily built with musicians in mind (though they have settings they claim cater to us). This virtual mixer does everything zoom couldn't! Now I have my DAW, my computers stereomix AND my Shure microphone running through the same mixer all coming out beautifully through my Line In Microphone setting. I don't even have to share sound, in order to share my sound! Once again thank you!
I just wanted to report back on how great this setup is working after I revised and adjusted my settings, and watched your video several times! Thanks so much, everything sounds great!!
Absolutely brilliant presentation and information. I know what I’ll be doing this weekend now :-) I can only imagine the work you had to put in to write and edit this video, hats off to you mate.
Superb video! Thank you so much for taking the time to impart all this knowledge. It's been a complete game changer for the sound experience in my online breathwork sessions that I run on Zoom. Been tearing my hair out about crappy music and mic mixes and this video solved all my problems in one go. Very grateful 🙏
I'm really happy this has been a benefit to you! This was a monster challenge for me to overcome and I've personally benefitted from this audio mix for 2+ years now. I'm hoping you enjoy similar success!
I just want to mix background music from Windows media player with my voice coming through my webcam mic, both going into zoom. Do I need to run OBS as well?
Yes, good idea, but I want to use Zoom&Obs for Music Jam Session, so I need best setup for minimize audio latency and I want have best audio clear quality too. I'm not sure that is possible with using Banana software. Are you sure that for this will be the best option? Best for zoom&obs tandem setup? What do you think?
Really appreciated this video! Thinking I can use some of this for an upcoming event where I will have a live audience using a PA system and a Sony EX9200 projector. Will have 4 live presenters, 1 remote presenter, and myself as the live moderator. Will be sharing a PowerPoint presentation which the remote presenter will control approx 10 out of the 60 total slides. Need audio from room to include voice from remote presenter (so the room here’s him), and need remote presenter to hear everything generated in the live room. Also, want the live room to see the remote presenter, so was going to use Zoom or Teams to do that. Any additional guidance on this? Also want to capture a good recording of whole presentation for replay. Any other suggestions?
Hi Jeff - Sorry I missed this. With that level level of complexity, I think you'd want to move up to an actual hardware mixer where you can capture audio, video from unique laptops + cameras and mix into one feed. I'm guessing you did that and used a series of capture cards to make it happen. I'm not a professional AV technician, but I've seen what you've mentioned done, but it takes a fair amount of hardware.
Question about using iPad for music fitness class: If I am using a mini mixer, a speaker other than my Mac Pro and a wireless mic w/ receiver will I be able to see the mic in selection menu? Kind of convoluted I know. Thanks.
Hi @tshee, apologize for the LATE reply. (I switched my email and these notifications got lost). I'm sure you figured out by now, but you can connect your OBS Studio virtual camera to ANY of the online studios, like Riverside, Streamyard, etc. In fact, just make sure you select your microphone and audio sources as the Voicemeeter Aux-in/out options just like on Zoom, etc. That's what I do for the podcast I host, so I can cut in my own music really nicely.
Sorry the late reply, Omar. I'm not sure if a Mac's Facetime controls allow you to customize the microphone input. I'm not much of a Mac user, so I apologize. However, that is where I'd start...I'd look for a way to customize the audio settings in Mac's Facetime to more closely mirror what you do in Zoom. However, I have not verified that, so the advice is worth the price :-)
Thankyou but you arent explaining what bits are the inputs and the outputs so people can actually visualise this in terms of cables. I need to understand it because if I dont If something breaks I'm not going to be able to find the fault. You are using terms. But not explaining the flow of how it works.
This is perfect! As a musician and teacher who has been using zoom to perform and teach virtually, this virtual mixer has been the best solution yet! I've had great zoom meetings and terrible ones using the same settings, even with a physical mixer (mackie 4ch), it seems to me Zoom wasn't necessarily built with musicians in mind (though they have settings they claim cater to us). This virtual mixer does everything zoom couldn't! Now I have my DAW, my computers stereomix AND my Shure microphone running through the same mixer all coming out beautifully through my Line In Microphone setting. I don't even have to share sound, in order to share my sound! Once again thank you!
Boom! So glad you've found a solution (and that I could help)! Rock on!
I just wanted to report back on how great this setup is working after I revised and adjusted my settings, and watched your video several times! Thanks so much, everything sounds great!!
Thanks, Tom! Glad to "hear" you now have audio mixing SUPER POWERS!!! Rock on and thank you for watching :-)
Absolutely brilliant presentation and information. I know what I’ll be doing this weekend now :-) I can only imagine the work you had to put in to write and edit this video, hats off to you mate.
Hi Stephen. Thank you! Wishing you much success mixing your sounds! I can’t go back now ;-)
Superb video! Thank you so much for taking the time to impart all this knowledge. It's been a complete game changer for the sound experience in my online breathwork sessions that I run on Zoom. Been tearing my hair out about crappy music and mic mixes and this video solved all my problems in one go. Very grateful 🙏
I'm really happy this has been a benefit to you! This was a monster challenge for me to overcome and I've personally benefitted from this audio mix for 2+ years now. I'm hoping you enjoy similar success!
I just want to mix background music from Windows media player with my voice coming through my webcam mic, both going into zoom. Do I need to run OBS as well?
Yes, good idea, but I want to use Zoom&Obs for Music Jam Session, so I need best setup for minimize audio latency and I want have best audio clear quality too. I'm not sure that is possible with using Banana software. Are you sure that for this will be the best option? Best for zoom&obs tandem setup? What do you think?
Second. Audio Monitor plugin is OBS not better than Banana or maybe together?
Really appreciated this video! Thinking I can use
some of this for an upcoming event where I will have a live audience using a PA system and a Sony EX9200 projector. Will have 4 live presenters, 1 remote presenter, and myself as the live moderator. Will be sharing a PowerPoint presentation which the remote presenter will control approx 10 out of the 60 total slides. Need audio from room to include voice from remote presenter (so the room here’s him), and need remote presenter to hear everything generated in the live room. Also, want the live room to see the remote presenter, so was going to use Zoom or Teams to do that. Any additional guidance on this? Also want to capture a good recording of whole presentation for replay. Any other suggestions?
Hi Jeff - Sorry I missed this. With that level level of complexity, I think you'd want to move up to an actual hardware mixer where you can capture audio, video from unique laptops + cameras and mix into one feed. I'm guessing you did that and used a series of capture cards to make it happen.
I'm not a professional AV technician, but I've seen what you've mentioned done, but it takes a fair amount of hardware.
Question about using iPad for music fitness class:
If I am using a mini mixer, a speaker other than my Mac Pro and a wireless mic w/ receiver will I be able to see the mic in selection menu? Kind of convoluted I know.
Thanks.
This is for Zoom.
Michael - I now am switching over and using Riverside instead of Zoom for my new podcast...can I use the same setup or do I do it differently?
Hi @tshee, apologize for the LATE reply. (I switched my email and these notifications got lost). I'm sure you figured out by now, but you can connect your OBS Studio virtual camera to ANY of the online studios, like Riverside, Streamyard, etc. In fact, just make sure you select your microphone and audio sources as the Voicemeeter Aux-in/out options just like on Zoom, etc. That's what I do for the podcast I host, so I can cut in my own music really nicely.
Can you help me set this up with FaceTime? It works perfect with zoom and discord
Sorry the late reply, Omar. I'm not sure if a Mac's Facetime controls allow you to customize the microphone input. I'm not much of a Mac user, so I apologize. However, that is where I'd start...I'd look for a way to customize the audio settings in Mac's Facetime to more closely mirror what you do in Zoom. However, I have not verified that, so the advice is worth the price :-)
You lost me at 10:52...don't understand?
Thankyou but you arent explaining what bits are the inputs and the outputs so people can actually visualise this in terms of cables. I need to understand it because if I dont If something breaks I'm not going to be able to find the fault. You are using terms. But not explaining the flow of how it works.
This should not take 20min to explain
Agreed, @skaterude14b! However, it took me 4 days to figure it out initially, so in that sense, 20 min is a win. Thanks for tuning in...