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What most people don’t realize is that the tiny gear icon on the top right is accessible even before you start up your own meeting or join someone else’s meeting or webinar. Launch the program from your Programs or Applications folder and you’ll see something like this: In other words, don’t click on that handy Zoom URL in your calendar invite or email message (yet). Next time you’re poised to join a Zoom meeting, instead just launch the program itself. Add an external webcam (one of the best ways to improve your appearance on video calls) and it can get pretty complicated! CHOOSE SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE BEFORE YOUR ZOOM MEETING

Zoommy source how to#

And figure out how to configure Zoom to use that gear, of course, because it’s hard to anticipate what the program will choose as your default speaker and microphone when launched. The rise of personal audio gear, particularly wireless Bluetooth earbuds and headphones that include a built-in microphone, coupled with the increasing popularity of “gamer” headphones with little boom microphones for maximal audio quality, means that quite a few people have better audio gear, they just have to plug it in. I definitely expect that the next generation of laptops is going to have significantly better built-in cameras and microphones, but that’s another discussion entirely. Undoubtedly laptop and computer designers never anticipated we’d spend a year or more on video calls instead of meeting face to face for work, school, and personal entertainment. The sad fact is that most built-in webcam and microphone setups on modern computers are pretty poor or downright crummy. While the most common error I see in Zoom meetings is that people start talking without noticing that they’re still on mute, having the wrong audio source has to be a close second.