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Newcomer
January 2, 2023
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Piano teacher cannot hear students playing notes sound cutting in out

  • January 2, 2023
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Teaching Piano online with zoom For the last 2 years has been excellent until now... 

 

Problem 

When students play piano during lesson for my mother who teaches online, audio at a certain threshold cuts out on her side / filtered. softer played notes from what I noticed so far this is a new problem so I'm all over it and monitoring. 

 

The problem began last week so I believe ( not 💯) it is an update that has been rolled out across Zoom community on Dec 29,2022

 

I am currently changing experimenting on my side

 

windows driver sound render raw

 

Original sound for musicians off ( 

 

Our machine is a Windows 11 machine  I have not applied any driver or Windows updates recently.

I have a Nvidia card that has not been modified or updated nothing has been changed on local machine. Also use an external webcam that is not been updated or settings changed

 

Students have a diverse range of devices from ipdads to iphones, Android, chrome books to windows laptops (best sounding so far) with external and internal camera/mic

 

Nothing was changed on our side before this problem came about I don't like to change anything on their side because most piano students are using their parents' device, and most parents are prominent CEOs celebs Etc that use their devices in meetings ( I'm an IT guy and I know for sure their it guys wouldn't be very happy campers if they picked up someone was in there changing things) and certainly don't want to mess with Apple devices. 

 

anyone have any ideas, or info and could share that'd be awesome happy New Year everyone! matt

 

    15 replies

    Newcomer
    February 3, 2023

    I know! It’s terrible… I don’t know if I will renew my subscription when it runs out in June. I am definitely looking for any alternatives that will work better.

    Newcomer
    March 29, 2023

    In Zoom audio settings, on the advanced page, set the Signal processing by Windows audio device drivers to OFF.  That fixed the problem for me, at least.

    Newcomer
    July 5, 2023

    My solution to this ever present problem has been to switch to FaceTime for all lessons.nothing I have tried ( and I have read through all threads on this problem) has worked long term.

    Newcomer
    September 18, 2023

    I guess I will have to switch to FaceTime as well.  Nothing seems to work for me either.  Thanks everyone!

    Newcomer
    September 18, 2023

    sounds like lots of people have tried lots of options and just can't get zoom to do piano lessons. I have all windows/android devices and don't have facetime. Has anyone tried google video conferencing?