How to Make Zoom Work with Instrumental Music

Zoom is optimized for voice, and it tries to be intelligent about silencing background noise. Unfortunately, it usually interprets instrumental music like a piano or guitar as background noise! Here are the instructions for when you want to do live music via zoom (for when you want to prevent zoom from trying to get rid of instrumental music because it thinks it’s background noise). Note that, depending on how much your everyday zoom meetings have background noise, you may want to put these settings back the way they were for M-F meetings, and change them only for a meeting with music like your Saturday/Sunday worship. (i.e. with the changes below, Zoom will no longer try to get rid of noise from someone running the vacuum cleaner in the other room when you're at home on Tuesday afternoon 😊) Step 1 - Open your zoom settings Step 2 – Go to Audio Settings Step 3 – Click on Advanced Settings Step 4 – (three changes) * Click “Show in-meeting option to Enable Original Sound… * Disable ...